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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jiyoung feel about the increasing popularity of natural childbirth?
(a) She felt that medication could harm the child.
(b) She felt women who did not take meds were fools.
(c) She felt people took medication for the slightest headache, but society demanded women endure the pain of childbirth.
(d) She felt it made the most sense.

2. What policy did Kim Eunsil implement as soon as she became a manager?
(a) Maternity / paternity leave.
(b) No smoking.
(c) Dress code.
(d) No social media while working.

3. What did Jiyoung do for work when she started college?
(a) She cleaned houses.
(b) She tutored.
(c) She waited tables.
(d) She served ice cream.

4. What did Jiyoung hear a former alum was told my a department head regarding why she was not on a list of eligible candidates?
(a) She was not good at making coffee.
(b) Companies find smart women taxing.
(c) Good grades are enough when it comes to being a women.
(d) She was not attractive enough.

5. What part of Jiyoung’s body ached so badly she went to a doctor after giving birth to Jiwon?
(a) Her knees.
(b) Her ankles.
(c) Her wrists.
(d) Her hips.

6. What female did Jiyoung befriend in her study group junior year?
(a) Seungyeon.
(b) Hyesu.
(c) Hyejin.
(d) Daehyun.

7. Where did Eunyoung get a job after completing teacher training school?
(a) Busan.
(b) Seoul.
(c) Sweden.
(d) China.

8. What question on the form to legally register their marriage gave Jiyoung pause in “Marriage”?
(a) How they would split money if they divorced.
(b) What Jiyoung did for employment.
(c) Whose surname the couple would take.
(d) Whose surname their child would take.

9. How did Jiyoung feel after Daehyun’s family interrogated her about having a child on a trip to Busan?
(a) She felt happy they were speaking to her.
(b) She felt ashamed that she could not get pregnant.
(c) She felt Daehyun did not stick up for her.
(d) She felt they had every right to wonder.

10. During what year of college did Jiyoung begin more seriously consider employment and retake classes she failed?
(a) Senior year.
(b) Freshmen year.
(c) Junior year.
(d) Sophomore year.

11. What did Jiyoung’s father say of his former colleagues after he went out drinking with them one night in “Early Adulthood”?
(a) They all drank too much.
(b) They all blew their severance pay.
(c) They thought his children were losers.
(d) They all were far more successful than he was.

12. What did Daehyun’s mother say to Jiyoung’s mother about her at the start of “Marriage”?
(a) That she was sensible and thoughtful.
(b) That she was industrious and kind.
(c) That she was arrogant and rude.
(d) That she was intelligent and attractive.

13. When out for drinks with colleagues, what did Jiyoung learn about why she and Hyesu were always given the more difficult clients?
(a) The difficult clients preferred attractive women.
(b) Their boss did not want to burn out the men, who they saw as more long term employees than women.
(c) Their boss thought all women flirted with clients and would therefore make them happy.
(d) Their boss saw the two as more capable.

14. When Hyesu came to visit Jiyoung and her baby, what did she tell her was found in the women’s bathroom at work?
(a) Broken toilets.
(b) A spy cam.
(c) A bag of money.
(d) Free sanitary napkins.

15. Prior to conceiving, what decision did Daehyun and Jiyoung make regarding who would care for their child?
(a) Jiyoung would quit her job.
(b) They would hire a live-in nanny.
(c) Jiyoung’s mother would help
(d) Daehyun’s family would help.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Daehyun’s family react when Jiyoung told them they wanted to wait to have children?

2. What did Jiyoung wish she had said to the interviewer regarding his final question when she learned she did not get the job?

3. What did people say about Jiyoung after she and her boyfriend broke up?

4. According to the final paragraph of “Adulthood,” which country ranged the worst for working women?

5. Why did many students have to work part-time jobs when Jiyoung began college?

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