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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. How does Young Ju remember that Ju Mi reacted when Young Ju got curly hair?

2. What does Young Ju compare the brown hair to that some girls in her class have?

3. How much older is Young Ju's friend Ju Mi than Young Ju who likes to boss Young Ju around?

4. What color hair does Young Ju's first teacher have?

5. What does Halmoni tell Young Ju will make things better with her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the beginning of the book when Apa comes home late?

2. What does Young Ju think when her baby brother comes home?

3. What is the dress like that Young Ju wears when she and her family fly to America?

4. What is the house like that Apa rents for the family?

5. What do Young Ju's teacher and classmates do for her when she lies and says that her brother is dead?

6. What is it like for Young Ju to wade in the ocean?

7. What does Young Ju think of her permed hair, and what does she tell her mother?

8. What does Halmoni tell Young Ju about heaven?

9. What does Young Ju do with the things her classmates and teacher give her and why?

10. What do Young Ju and Joon get at a fair, and what happens to the things they get?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the book and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

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