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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 word is used to describe the way Jiyoung is looked at by interviewers during her many job interviews in “Adulthood”?

2. What did Jiyoung’s college boyfriend do after his sophomore year?

3. What did the cab driver who took Jiyoung to her first job interview tell her?

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

5. How many companies did Jiyoung apply to before she was offered an interview?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did people say after Jiyoung’s ex-boyfriend was found passed out drunk outside the porridge shop?

3. Where did Jiyoung receive her first job offer?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After reading the novel, write an essay analyzing whether the narrator of Kim Jiyoung is a reliable narrator or not. Explain the thematic significance the narrator has on the text and why the author chose this narrator.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the systemic misogyny Jiyoung experienced in the chapter entitled “Childhood.”

Essay Topic 3

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

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