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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 did Jiyoung do for the first time while out with her sister on graduation day?
2. What did Oh Misook do with the money she earned?
3. How did Eunyoung feel about her mother’s suggestion she consider a different job after the financial crisis hit?
4. Who is the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982?
5. What did Jiyoung feel her mother felt in regards to her starting her period?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did her sister say when Jiyoung wondered why there was not a pill just for cramps?
2. How did Jiyoung react when her mother told her she had once wanted to be a teacher?
3. How does Daehyun’s sister Suhyun behave at Chuseok toward her mother and Jiyoung?
4. Who did Koh Bonsoon credit for the fact that she was taken care of in her old age, despite Jiyoung’s mother doing all the work?
5. How does Suhyun react to Jiyoung’s behavior at Chuseok?
6. When Eunyoung complained to her mother that her brother was treated better at home what did her mother say?
7. What inappropriate ways did strangers and teachers treat girls on buses and schools after Jiyoung entered high school?
8. What did Jiyoung tell her husband when she was speaking as though she was her college friend, Cha Seungyeon?
9. How is Jiyoung’s story about her brother’s formula an initial example of the gender inequity Jiyoung experienced?
10. How did Oh Misook support her family when Jiyoung was a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jiyoung experiences personal changes throughout the novel. In what ways does Jiyoung change and in what ways does she remain the same? How do these changes develop the themes of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing the different ways women were treating during Jiyoung’s college years. Use direct examples from the text to support your analysis.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing the ways a lifetime of systemic misogyny impacts the female psyche.
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