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

2. 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 her mother should be helping her.
(b) He told her to hire a nanny.
(c) He said women these days have it easy.
(d) He said he understands.

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

4. What did Kang Hyesu confess to her work colleagues over beers one night?
(a) She had had an office romance.
(b) She was quitting.
(c) She was getting a promotion.
(d) She was going to marry her boss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what part of her pregnancy did Jiyoung suffer morning sickness?

2. What did Jiyoung’s mother convince her father to open in the building across from their old fried chicken shop?

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

4. What did Jiyoung do the first day she did not have to go to the office after quitting in “Marriage”?

5. After Jiyoung and her boyfriend broke up, what did she find him doing outside the porridge shop was morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Jiyoung receive her first job offer?

5. How are girls treated differently than boys in Jiyoung’s college hiking club?

6. What did Jiyoung’s father brag about when he came home after drinking with his former colleagues one night?

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

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

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

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

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