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

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

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

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

5. What did the cab driver who took Jiyoung to her first job interview tell her?
(a) Her skirt is not short enough.
(b) She should have more makeup on if she wants a job.
(c) He does not typically take women as his first fare.
(d) She was too cute for work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word is used to describe the way some interviewers touched Jiyoung during her many job interviews in “Adulthood”?

3. What did Daehyun’s mother say to Jiyoung’s mother about her at the start of “Marriage”?

4. What advice did Jiyoung’s father give her in “Adulthood” which upset her mother and caused to to call him “backwards”?

5. What did the division head of another company Jiyoung’s company had worked with compliment Jiyoung on at a dinner party one night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation regarding housekeeping did Jiyoung’s mother and future mother-in-law have during their first meeting?

2. What was the final question an interviewer asked the three interviewees during Jiyoung’s first job interview?

3. Why did Jiyoung ultimately agree that their child should keep her father’s surname rather than her mothers?

4. Though Jiyoung had told her husband’s family they were not planning on having children right away what did the family members assume the real reason must be?

5. What was one of the reasons Daehyun had more savings than Jiyoung when they first married?

6. Why did Jiyoung’s first closest friend at college have to take a leave of absence from school?

7. What did Kim Eunsil say she noticed all new female employees tended to do and told Jiyoung that she did not have to do?

8. Why was it ultimately decided that Jiyoung would leave her work after they had a child rather than return or take maternity leave?

9. What wish did Jiyoung’s boyfriend make on a snowflake after she had been offered a job at a marketing agency?

10. What business decisions did Jiyoung’s family make that resulted in them doing well financially?

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