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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ritual occurs in the Opening?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Communion.
(c) Confirmation.
(d) Last rites.

2. How does the "Opening" end?
(a) "And it begins."
(b) "Nomine."
(c) "Amen."
(d) "Espiritu Sanctu."

3. How many provinces was France formerly divided into?
(a) 36.
(b) 18.
(c) 23.
(d) 32.

4. During the Japanese occupation, what edict came out regarding men's grooming?
(a) All men were to wear plain clothes.
(b) All men were to cut their hair short.
(c) All men were to wear a top knot.
(d) All men were to shave their beards.

5. How many daughters did Guan Soon's family have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

6. According to the anonymous narrator in "Clio: History," without which of the following can there be no people?
(a) A language.
(b) A nation or an ancestry.
(c) A leader.
(d) An anthem.

7. On what date does the narrator write her mother from Seoul?
(a) April 25.
(b) June 25.
(c) June 19.
(d) April 19.

8. What is Mother's ethnicity?
(a) Chinese.
(b) American.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Korean.

9. What does the narrator bite in "Urania: Astronomy"?
(a) The lip.
(b) The arm.
(c) The finger.
(d) The tongue.

10. In "Clio: History," whose name does the anonymous woman call three times?
(a) Jeanne d'Arc.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Yu Guan Soon.
(d) Mother.

11. Which word appears in italics at the end of "Melpomene: Tragedy"?
(a) No.
(b) She.
(c) Her.
(d) Against.

12. In the translation exercises in the Opening, which city does the traveler leave?
(a) Seoul.
(b) Calais.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

13. How many years has Mother spent in exile?
(a) 6.
(b) 36.
(c) 10.
(d) 18.

14. In "Urania: Astronomy," what does the narrator say she can do without?
(a) Rest.
(b) Silence.
(c) Breath.
(d) Dreams.

15. Where was Mother born?
(a) Japan.
(b) Yong Jung, Manchuria.
(c) Korea.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What calendar dates the birth of Yu Guan Soon?

2. Which language opens the book?

3. What simple act has not been forbidden of Mother?

4. In the Opening, which of the following does the anonymous woman take possession of?

5. How many languages does Mother speak?

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