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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What year did Yu Guan Soon die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1903.
2. What ritual occurs in the Opening?
(a) Confirmation.
(b) Last rites.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Communion.
3. How does the "Opening" end?
(a) "Amen."
(b) "Nomine."
(c) "Espiritu Sanctu."
(d) "And it begins."
4. What year does Mother graduate from college?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.
5. What did the Japanese laws mandate regarding pipes?
(a) They were forbidden.
(b) They were to be long, made from bamboo.
(c) They were to be short, unlike the traditional Korean bamboo pipes.
(d) They were only to be used to smoke tobacco.
Short Answer Questions
1. From which sources does news of the September conflict emerge?
2. Which language opens the book?
3. What image opens "Clio: History"?
4. In the Opening, which languages are the translation exercises written in?
5. Which of the following is absent from the Korea that the narrator visits?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Mother teach?
2. According to the narrator of "Clio: History," why has everything been lost to the Japanese?
3. What is Mother's MAH-UHM? Where is it trapped?
4. How do Demeter and Sibyl appear as figures in "Melpomene: Tragedy"?
5. In "Urania: Astronomy," how do pages and punctuation relate to the focus on breath?
6. Discuss the laws the Japanese imposed on the Koreans.
7. Although the text is written in English, many of the forms and structures Cha uses do not adhere to standards of American English. Some of the translation passages, in particular, seem to have a structure that evinces first-language influence. Do you think the translation passages were originally written in English? Why or why not?
8. What is the significance of the italicized passages in the "Opening"?
9. Describe the circumstances of the narrator's brother's death.
10. Describe the process Mother undergoes to become an American citizen.
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