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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isak arrive in Yeongdu from Pyongyang in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) He flies.
(b) He waits for a local farmer to give him a ride.
(c) He takes a train and then a ferry.
(d) He takes a train and then walks.

2. What does Yoseb learn when he goes to the church looking for everyone in Book Two, Chapter 1?
(a) That Kyunghee has ran off with another man.
(b) That Sunja has run away.
(c) That Mozasu has been misbehaving again.
(d) That Isak, Pastor Yoo, and Sexton Hu were arrested.

3. What does Sunja think when she sees Yangjin for the first time since Yeongdo in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) She looks so old.
(b) Her mother has shrunk.
(c) She does not know how to express her happiness.
(d) She wishes she stayed in Korea.

4. What does Sunja think about her children in Book Two, Chapter 4?
(a) That her boys are her delight.
(b) That she wishes she could provide more for them.
(c) That it is difficult to support them financially.
(d) That she is annoyed by them.

5. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to be careful for in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Sharks.
(b) Slippery rocks.
(c) The crowded marketplace.
(d) The colonial government looking for Korean women to take to China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Yoseb not ask his boss, Shimamura-san, to help with Isak's imprisonment in Book Two, Chapter 1?

2. What does Isak say about Sunja's expected baby in Book One, Chapter 7?

3. What does the the arrival of Sunja’s baby interrupt for midwife Okja in Book One, Chapter 17?

4. According to Book One, Chapter 4, Koh Hansu is a what?

5. What does Sunja begin doing for work in Book Two, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hansu tell Kim Changho about the Korean nationalist groups in Book Two, Chapter Nine?

2. What secrets does Noa keep to himself in Book Two, Chapter 4? Who does he keep these secrets from?

3. What worries does Yangjin confide to Isak as they walk in Book One, Chapter 7?

4. In Book Two, Chapter 5, why does Isak tell Noa he must still go to school even though Isak is dying?

5. Why do the Chung brothers say that Japan will never conquer China in Book One, Chapter 2? Why do they support China?

6. What does Yoseb think of the Japanese war in China in Book Two, Chapter 3? How does the way he thinks about it connect with the larger philosophy of Korean people?

7. Why does Hansu tell Sunja she must leave Osaka in Book Two, Chapter 6? What does he tell her she must do?

8. What is Goro-san's character like and why is he so successful at Pachinko as described in Book Two, Chapter 12?

9. How does the novel describe Ikaino in Book One, Chapter 12?

10. What does Sunja think about herself and her family when she realizes Hansu will not marry her in Book One, Chapter 6?

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