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True or false: Ko and Yoko are sisters.

true

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did they all end up together at the end.

yes they did.

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What does bamboo Grove mean?

bamboo forest.

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What happened in chapter 4 of So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

At the factory where Hideyo works, the Korean Communists make a raid to kill all the Japanese youth who work there.

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Who are Yoko, Ko and mother hiding from?

Korean Communists.

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How old is Ko in So Far from the Bamboo Grove?

Eleven-year-old

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When mother, Ko and Yoko left was brother with them?

no

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What happens in chapter 3 of So Far From the Bamboo Grove? 

The family follows the train tracks toward Seoul.

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When Hideyo leaves his friends, where does he head? (from Chapter 4)

He has relatives in southern Korea and heads for their homes with Shinzo and Makoto after parting with Hideyo, who heads for Seoul.

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Why do Mother, Ko and Yoko have to move from northern Korea?

Because are in terrible danger from the Japanese.

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Who's the author of this book?

 Yoko Kawashima

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Is So Far From The Bamboo Grove Based on a true story?

A true account that is filled with violence and death, yet one that is ultimately a story of family love and life.

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What happened in Chapter 5 of So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

Ko discovers a farmer's field and negotiates for corn and tomatoes, even though the farmer hates Japanese.

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What is Dr. Takeda's connection to Yoko's family? (from Chapter 5

  A. They met once at a party.

   B. His father knows Yoko's father, Yoshio.

     C. They are distant cousins.

   D.  His daughter is friends with Hideyo.

B

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What is the book So Far From the Bamboo Grove about?

A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II

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Who is the main character in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

Yoko Kawashima

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True or false: They see their father again.

true

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What is the first stop on their way to Seoul?

 The Train Station.

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What was the FRIST setting of so far from the bamboo grove?

 northern Korea near the border with China

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What war was so far from the Bamboo Grove?

WAR II

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how old is Yoko

11

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True or false: Ko dies in the book.

false

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What is the cause of mother's death?

Starvation and sickness.

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Who's perspective is the book based off of?

Yoko's point of view.

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Why are the Japanese in danger after World War II?

The Korean people want control of their land.