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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. What key word does Hyeonseo tell herself when she is trying to make it through her interrogation successfully?
(a) Relax.
(b) Focus.
(c) Mother.
(d) Family.

2. What does Hyeonseo forget to ask when she accepts her first job after leaving the men's salon?
(a) The amount of her salary.
(b) What her hours will be.
(c) Whether she will need an ID.
(d) Which days she will have off.

3. When Hyeonseo's Uncle Jung-gil tells her that Kim Jong-Il had not been born in Korea, where does he say Kim Jong-il had been born instead?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Laos.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Mongolia.

4. What does the word omma mean in Korean?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Brother.

5. What type of music does Hyeonseo set as the incoming ring tone solely for when her mother and brother call her?
(a) A Chinese comedy ballad.
(b) A samisen tune.
(c) A Thai ballad.
(d) A Korean comedy rap.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of the men's salon is Hyeonseo put to work massaging a man?

2. Who does Uncle Jong-gil say drove Kim Il-sung to a heart attack?

3. How does Hyeonseo find out that she will not be allowed to leave the salon even if she decides not to take the job?

4. What job does Hyeonso take after escaping from the men's salon?

5. When Hyeonseo asks the North Korean waitress where her plastic surgery had performed, what is the waitress's reply?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Hyeonseo goes to Xita to find a job, what is the outcome?

2. What are the considerations that cause Hyeonseo to waffle in her decision about whether or not to go to South Korea?

3. How does Hyeonseo compare and contrast the two countries of North Korea and China through description of each country's restaurants?

4. What are Geun-soo's mother's views regarding what kind of women Geun-soo should date?

5. What emotion does Hyeonseo say she feels after her mother tells her over the phone that she should not return to North Korea?

6. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?

7. What plan does Hyeonseo invent in order to reach South Korea?

8. How does Hyeonseo characterize Min-ho's view of money and how his views represent those of all North Koreans?

9. What causes Hyeonseo to make the decision not to marry Geun-soo?

10. To whom does Hyeonseo's new identification card, the one stating that her name is Park Sun-ja, belong?

(see the answer keys)

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