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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 teacher do after the war?

2. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?

3. What are all the people doing at the cemetery?

4. With whom does the mother eat breakfast after she feeds five others?

5. What does the teacher realize when the boy comes to talk with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. The boy is having trouble with his collection. What is his dilemma, and with what solution does his grandmother come up?

2. Why does the grandmother insist on giving the boy white rice in his lunch?

3. How does the teacher react to the boy's information?

4. How do the people in the town show the boy their support?

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

6. Why is the morning in the household hectic? Describe the breakfast schedule.

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

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

9. Explain the quandary the classmates are in when the teacher starts attacking the boy? How do they react, and what is the boy's response to them?

10. What is the students' living situation like?

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

The scene where the boy dragged himself to the performance is emotional on several levels. Explain how his family supported him, how he made his protest, and how he reacted emotionally when he started saying his lines. Why do you think he reacted like that?

Essay Topic 3

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

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