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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 year does Mother graduate from college?
2. Which of the following is silent during "Urania: Astronomy"?
3. Where was Mother born?
4. What does the narrator do during confession?
5. How many volunteer resistance members were killed by Japanese troops on September 12, 1907?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the significance of Mary in the "Opening." When does she appear? How is she important?
2. Where does Mother teach?
3. Discuss the laws the Japanese imposed on the Koreans.
4. In "Calliope: Epic Poetry," how does the narrator attempt to communicate with her mother?
5. Describe the process Mother undergoes to become an American citizen.
6. 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?
7. Why does Cha include a quoted section of Japanese-Korean history in "Clio: History"?
8. Describe the medical procedure in "Urania: Astronomy."
9. Why is Yu Guan Soon's birth dated on the lunar calendar while her death is dated on the Julian calendar?
10. Why is Mother born in Manchuria?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the significance of the work's nine-part structure. How does Cha's invocation of a Muse in each chapter structure and order the work? What new layer of meaning does it lend the text? Is this choice effective in adding to the overall message of the work? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Explore Cha's commentary on tradition in the work. Tradition is lost, regained, and preserved in the work. How important is tradition to Cha's work? How do the themes of oppression, exile, displacement, and fragmentation affect Cha's vision of tradition? Is her work perhaps an act of preserving tradition in itself? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Cha makes repeated allusions to the intervention of various outside forces in the politics and lives of the Korean people. Discuss Cha's commentary on imperialism and neo-imperialist policies. Does she seem to support international intervention in the so-called civil war in Korea? Does she wish assistance had arrived sooner? In Cha's work, how does the international involvement in the Korean War conflict compare to the Japanese occupation during and after World War II?
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