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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. Prior to September 8, 2015, Daehyun noticed his wife doing what for no reason, but chalked it up to a new mother’s exhaustion?
2. Which member of the family was considered the most valuable, according to Jiyoung in the chapter entitled “Childhood”?
3. Why did many factory workers send money home to their families?
4. Who was the only person Jiyoung told when she started her period in eighth grade?
5. What did Oh Misook’s husband say when she asked what he would do if their third child was a girl?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Jiyoung’s story about her brother’s formula an initial example of the gender inequity Jiyoung experienced?
2. How were abortion laws in Korea described in the chapter “Childhood”?
3. What did Oh Misook do to support her family when she was growing up after Korea became industrialized?
4. What did Oh Misook do for work in her neighborhood after she quit her odd job after her husband complained?
5. Where did Kim Jiyoung live as a child and with whom?
6. In what way did the dress code at Jiyoung’s middle school change once boys began to attend?
7. How did Oh Misook react each time she gave birth to a girl?
8. How did Jiyoung's father react after Jiyoung was followed on the bus by a young man who accused her of flirting with him?
9. What did Oh Misook do after finding out her third child would be a girl?
10. What happened when a male classmate threw Jiyoung’s shoe in class in elementary school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing the ways a lifetime of systemic misogyny impacts the female psyche.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing gender roles between Kim Jiyoung’s mother and father. In what ways are they stereotypical of the time and place? In what ways are these roles the same or different today? Use specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the theme of motherhood in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Include viewpoints from Jiyoung, her mother, and her grandmother.
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