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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 a university student say about Jiyoung when she saw her riding the train from work while pregnant?

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

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

4. What good financial move did Jiyoung’s mother make in addition to their successful porridge shop?

5. Who helped the only female team lead, Kim Eunsil care for her child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Jiyoung’s father say to her after she said she was not going to attend graduation and how did her mother reply?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Jiyoung’s relationship with her husband. Use examples from the text to show how their relationship develops over time and how it represents the themes of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the gender inequities and systemic misogyny Jiyoung experienced both directly and indirectly in the chapter “Adolescence.”

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how Jiyoung and her mother’s relationship changes over the course of the novel, particularly after Jiyoung has her child. What does Jiyoung learn about her mother and how does this knowledge impact her view of her mother?

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