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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 overhear a hiking club member say dating Jiyoung would be like?

2. What advice did Jiyoung’s father give her in “Adulthood” which upset her mother and caused to to call him “backwards”?

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

4. According to the final paragraph of “Adulthood,” which country ranged the worst for working women?

5. What policy did Kim Eunsil implement as soon as she became a manager?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where did Jiyoung receive her first job offer?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Write an essay analyzing the ways a lifetime of systemic misogyny impacts the female psyche.

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