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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 does Ko manage to get from the farmer by speaking to him in Korean?
2. What theme does the story allude to?
3. What does the group of four friends find when they return to their village?
4. What skill does Hideyo use to convince others that he is Korean?
5. What age is Yoko at the start of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. The Korean officials are quite strict about letting only 100 people on the boat. One official says, "the rule is the rule. That is what your government always said to us." Why do you think the soldier delights in saying this to the hundreds of people waiting in line?
2. What evidence is there in Chapter 5 that indicates that Ko's place and role in the family has changed?
3. Do you think Yoko would have made it this far without Ko?
4. What sort of traditional Japanese activities is Yoko learning at school?
5. What is the symbolism of Yoko's Mt. Fuji paperweight?
6. Why is the Kawashima family, of Japanese origin, living in Korea?
7. Describe Yoko's emotions as she, Ko, and mother head for Japan.
8. The Japanese are being persecuted by the Korean Communists because of their nationality. How has Yoko had to compromise her individual and cultural identity thus far?
9. Why do the students perform at the hospital?
10. Why do you think Hideyo and his friends make a plan to reunite in five years at the Tokyo Bridge?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Japan's historical interest in Korea, particularly in the two World Wars, affect the characters in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?
Essay Topic 2
Aside from physically being so far from the bamboo grove, how are Yoko and her family symbolically so far from it? In other words, what does the bamboo grove symbolize for them?
Essay Topic 3
Ko and Yoko seem to escape or change their fate on many different occasions. Cite three specific opportunities, experiences, or events which allow them to continue living and change their circumstances.
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