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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do when his mother tries to wake him up on Sundays?

2. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?

3. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?

4. What does the father tell the mother the baby is doing as they cross the river?

5. Who comes to visit the boy after school on the first day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

2. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

3. What job do the mother and father have?

4. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

5. What is crossing the river like?

6. How do the people in the train cart treat the mother after the father is taken away?

7. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

8. What will happen to the tenant farmer when he gets a wife?

9. How is this school different from the one he used to attending?

10. What experience has the mother had with jail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what the Koreans were doing in the cemetery. How did the boy feel about the situation? How did his father feel about it?

Essay Topic 2

The Japanese teacher made comments which implied that he knew that if the boy left, things were going badly and the end was near. Why did he say that, and what was actually happening in Germany and Japan?

Essay Topic 3

Describe what the family had to go through before they reached their final destination.

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