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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 is he upset about his lunch?

2. Years later, what do they discover in the shrine?

3. What does the boy decide to do?

4. How does the sister feel about the new baby?

5. What do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy get to the performance? What is his journey like?

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

3. What is February like?

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

5. What is the boy's condition when he arrives at his home?

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

7. Why does the boy have to bring three logs to class, and how does it benefit him?

8. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

9. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what role the boy had to perform in the school play and how he felt about it. How did the Koreans in the town feel about it? How did his family feel about it?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the scene in the detention camp. What was the father concerned about, and how did he plan to deal with it? What actually happened?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the Japanese influence in the school. How did it affect the students' school day? How did it affect the boy personally?

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