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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 is placed on the tongue in the Opening?
(a) A wafer.
(b) Ash.
(c) Water.
(d) Salt.

2. What language does Mother teach the children in?
(a) French.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Korean.
(d) Chinese.

3. In "Melpomene: Tragedy," why are students shot during the demonstration?
(a) For wearing school uniforms.
(b) For shouting violent insults.
(c) For throwing rocks at the soldiers.
(d) For joining the Japanese troops.

4. In "Melpomene: Tragedy," what evidence of conflicts past does the narrator see?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Unmarked graves.
(c) War-torn buildings.
(d) Blood stains on the sidewalk.

5. When Mother arrives, how long has it been since a female teacher taught at the school?
(a) 13 years.
(b) There has never been a female teacher.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 6 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tutor do when the brother refuses to obey?

2. In "Urania: Astronomy," the speaker has a hard time distinguishing rain from which of the following?

3. What does the map at the beginning of "Melpomene: Tragedy" indicate?

4. Where was Mother born?

5. What does the narrator bite in "Urania: Astronomy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cha include images of the circulatory system, the nervous system, and the respiratory system in in "Urania: Astronomy," a section dedicated to astronomy?

2. In "Urania: Astronomy," why does the poetry appear in side-by-side translation?

3. In "Calliope: Epic Poetry," how does the narrator attempt to communicate with her mother?

4. Describe the medical procedure in "Urania: Astronomy."

5. How do Demeter and Sibyl appear as figures in "Melpomene: Tragedy"?

6. Describe the circumstances of the narrator's brother's death.

7. Why does Cha include a quoted section of Japanese-Korean history in "Clio: History"?

8. Discuss the significance of Mary in the "Opening." When does she appear? How is she important?

9. Discuss the break down in the translation exercise in the opening, particularly beginning with exercise number 5 in the second set of translations. Why does the grammar, tone, and voice shift?

10. In "Urania: Astronomy," what does the tongue image symbolize?

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