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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 kind of surgery did Chongmi tell Zauner Eunmi and Nami had?

2. Where did Zauner grow up?

3. Who did Nami start dating during Zauner's childhood?

4. Where did Chongmi go for a second opinion in Chapter 5?

5. What did Zauner's mother call to tell her in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Zauner's mother and father first meet?

2. When and why did Zauner's relationship with her father start to sour?

3. How did Zauner's father handle Chongmi's illness?

4. How did people in Korea usually react to Zauner as a child on her visits there?

5. How did Zauner's mother react to her interest in music when Zauner was a teenager?

6. How does Zauner feel about having grown up in suburban/rural Oregon?

7. How did Chongmi respond to her first rounds of chemotherapy?

8. How did Zauner feel about spending six weeks in Korea every other summer as a child?

9. What band and singer impacted Zauner the most strongly when she was just getting into music?

10. Why did Zauner feel that her mother pressured her when she was a child and adolescent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Zauner come to feel about Maangchi, the YouTube vlogger she turns to for help making some beloved Korean recipes? How does watching Maangchi help Zauner through some of her grief following her mother's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What time period and events does Zauner trace the beginnings of her rift with her father to? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why are Zauner's parents so against her dream of becoming a musician? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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