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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 color are the subtitles that appear on the screen in "Erato: Love Poetry"?
2. What color is the window frame in the final scene of "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
3. Which of the following is NOT one of the white flowers mentioned in "Thalia: Comedy"?
4. What is the last sound described in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
5. What color light encircles the bowl the woman hands the girl in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the young girl at the well in "Polymnia: Sacred Poetry"?
2. Describe the image at the opening of "Terpischore: Choral Dance."
3. How does speech relate to memory in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry"?
4. Compare "memory" with "second memory." How are these passages alike or different?
5. Discuss the photograph of the woman which concludes "Erato: Love Poetry."
6. Discuss the opening lines of "Terpischore: Choral Dance." What is the general impression you gain from these lines? ("You remain dismembered...apart from the congregation.")
7. Why does Cha include the second, handwritten, letter to Mrs. Laura Claxton?
8. Discuss the ending of "Terpischore: Choral Dance." What sentiment do the closing lines leave you with?
9. Discuss the ending of the work. Why does it end with a child looking out a window?
10. Examine the imagery of the veil in "Elitere: Lyric Poetry."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In addition to the motif of suffering, the work exhibits a recurrent theme of transcendence as well. Cha's mother overcomes her exile status and poor health in Manchuria, saintly and Christ-like figures transcend worldly suffering, and the narrator transcends the painful distances between herself and the other women who compose her identity. How does Cha treat transcendence in this work? Is it a happily-ever-after, feel-good ending to a painful experience? Or perhaps it is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit? Is there a religious or spiritual component to her message? Using support from the text, discuss Cha's message regarding transcendence of suffering.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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