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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. What size sandal did the narrator notice that most enemies of the state wore?

2. In Chapter 15, what treatise of the Dear Leader is published?

3. By Chapter 19, how many years had the narrator used the Pubyok badge to escape harvest details?

4. What does the narrator go to the illegal night market to purchase?

5. In Chapter 18, what river can Ga smell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where has Sun Moons seen the gun that Kim Jong Il gives Commander Ga?

2. How and when does Sun Moon realize that she will never see her husband again?

3. How did the Propaganda boys write the story of a lady missionary who snuck in from the south with a satchel of Bibles?

4. In Chapter 16, how does Ga describe the stonings he participated in?

5. In Chapter 17, why are the narrator's neighbors taken away early one morning?

6. What was Mongnan's role when Jun Do killed Commander Ga?

7. In Chapter 15, how is Wonsan described?

8. Why does Comrade Buc say that Commander Ga didn't have anything to do with the missing actress?

9. How does the narrator get caught up in a work detail for the rice harvest?

10. What martyr's grave does Ga want to see, and how does it make him feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did some characters have freedom, even though they were physically imprisoned, and why were some characters imprisoned even though physically they were not bound to one place?

Essay Topic 2

What is greater than Buc's fear of displeasing the Dear Leader that causes him to volunteer to help Ga with his escape plan?

Essay Topic 3

Jun Do was not an orphan, yet he lived in an orphanage. Why did Jun Do live in an orphan and bear an orphan's name if he was not an orphan?

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