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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. Why doesn't the boy quit school?

2. What is each child in the school required to do?

3. Where does the father get his inspiration for the name?

4. Where do the class members live?

5. What is the weather like as they stand on line?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the boy have an issue with his white rice?

2. How do the students get to interact with their families?

3. What is the class play about, and why does the boy get his part, according to the grandmother?

4. What is unusual about the mothers visit, and how does she get time with her son?

5. What is February like?

6. What is the irony of the shrine that the children have to go to weekly?

7. Why does the father wear traditional Korean clothing and a black armband to go change his name?

8. What decision does the boy have to make, and what does he tell the Japanese teacher?

9. Explain why there are so many rubber balls in town.

10. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did the townspeople have to do before they were truly liberated? How did they go about doing it? What was the boy's role in this plan?

Essay Topic 2

What was happening to the food supply of the Koreans? How did this affect the grandmother? How did the boy feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

What happened politically in August of 1939 that changed the map, and what did this signify? How did the teacher react to the change?

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