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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the final paragraph of “Adulthood,” which country ranged the worst for working women?
(a) China.
(b) Korea.
(c) Sweden.
(d) The United States.

2. What word is used to describe the way Jiyoung is looked at by interviewers during her many job interviews in “Adulthood”?
(a) Leeringly.
(b) Lecherously.
(c) Longingly.
(d) Licentiousness.

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

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

5. What did Jiyoung wish she had said to the interviewer regarding his final question when she learned she did not get the job?
(a) That she was better than the other two candidates.
(b) That his question was sexual harassment.
(c) That he was a pig.
(d) That he should rot.

6. How did the doctor react when Jiyoung told him she could not take his advice and rest because she had a baby and a house to take care of?
(a) He said women these days have it easy.
(b) He said he understands.
(c) He said her mother should be helping her.
(d) He told her to hire a nanny.

7. Who paid for Daehyun and Jiyoung’s wedding and honeymoon?
(a) Jiyoung’s parents.
(b) Jiyoung’s uncles.
(c) Daehyun’s parents.
(d) Daehyun and Jiyoung.

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

9. Why did many students have to work part-time jobs when Jiyoung began college?
(a) Part-time work counted as class credit.
(b) College tuition had increased.
(c) Parents were out of work.
(d) People believed part-time work made students more responsible.

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

11. What final incident ended Jiyoung’s relationship with her boyfriend in “Adulthood”?
(a) She cheated on him.
(b) He cheated on her.
(c) She stopped buying him things.
(d) She got drunk at a work dinner.

12. In which club did Jiyoung meet her first boyfriend?
(a) Chess club.
(b) Hiking club.
(c) Swim club.
(d) Photography club.

13. What did Jiyoung’s mother convince her father to open in the building across from their old fried chicken shop?
(a) A seafood restaurant.
(b) A porridge shop.
(c) A movie theater.
(d) An ice cream shop.

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

15. How many companies did Jiyoung apply to before she was offered an interview?
(a) 100.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jiyoung do when she first attended college?

2. What did the cab driver who took Jiyoung to her first job interview tell her?

3. During what year of college did Jiyoung begin more seriously consider employment and retake classes she failed?

4. When out for drinks with colleagues, what did Jiyoung learn about why she and Hyesu were always given the more difficult clients?

5. What was the final question Jiyoung and the other two candidates were asked at a job interview?

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