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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 people say about Jiyoung after she and her boyfriend broke up?

2. What question on the form to legally register their marriage gave Jiyoung pause in “Marriage”?

3. Which of Jiyoung’s friends was studying for the civil service exams in “Adulthood”?

4. What was Daehyun’s surname?

5. How were the girl’s treated at hiking club?

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

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

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

5. Why did Kim Eunsil think she may have set a bad precedent for other female employees in the company?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Nam-Choo’s choice to tell the novel from third person point of view. Discuss how this point-of-view impacts the reader’s experience. Using direct examples from the text, explain why this point-of-view is or is not an effective choice.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing and contrasting Jiyoung’s family with that of her husband’s. Use direct examples from the text to support your comparison.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing how the social expectations of a woman and mother have led Jiyoung to psychosis. Use examples from each chapter to support your analysis.

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