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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. During what activity does the author say is the only time she and her classmates called each other "comrade" (33)?
2. What simile does Hyeonseo use to describe the fireball emanating from her childhood home?
3. What was NOT a characteristic of the special class Hyeonseo began taking when she was 15?
4. Why does Hyeonseo's mother carry a candle to the door when meeting Hyeonseo's future father and her future husband for the second time?
5. How many gradations of status exist within the three broad categories of songbun?
Short Essay Questions
1. What quality of her mother's personality does Hyeonseo state is an unusual trait for a woman of high songbun?
2. What is the "only permitted outlet for spiritual fervor" (41) in North Korea and what does the author say is the punishment for seeking out different means of spirituality?
3. How does Hyeonseo feel about her forced participation in the Socialist Youth League?
4. What do the hills surrounding the city of Anju symbolize within the text?
5. When Hyeonseo's grandmother tells her the truth about her biological father and stepfather, what is Hyeonseo's response and what does she say that she should have done instead?
6. What are the two types of prison in the gulag?
7. How does Hyeonseo interpret the fortune-teller's announcement that Hyeonseo will have "a future connected with music" and will "eat foreign rice" (43)?
8. What does the family's color television symbolize within the narrative?
9. What does Hyeonseo mean when she tells the reader, "We were now living in a sensitive area, politically," in relation to the family's home in Hyesan (59)?
10. Where is Hyeonseo's family's new house in Hyesan located after they move back from Anju?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Deception is a theme that shows up often in The Girl with Seven Names, both in relation to the author's use of deceit to elude her would-be captors and in relation to the deceptive techniques employed by the North Korean secret police in their quest to identify traitors. Develop a claim stating the author's message regarding deception and prove your claim with at least three instances of deception within the memoir.
Essay Topic 2
Look for instances within the memoir that discuss stereotypes people from one location have in their minds about residents of another location. What passages and incidents are used by the author in order to portray these views and what is the author's message regarding stereotyping a person based on where he or she lives?
Essay Topic 3
The memoir does not shy away from including graphic and disturbing details when describing the horrors inflicted on the North Korean people by the ruling regime, such as the scene in which Hyeonseo witnesses a public hanging. Write a persuasive essay in which you argue for or against the use of this book in schools as a means to illuminate the ongoing human rights violations happening in North Korea.
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