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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. Who paid for Daehyun and Jiyoung’s wedding and honeymoon?

2. What did Jiyoung do the first day she did not have to go to the office after quitting in “Marriage”?

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

4. Who is meeting for the first time at the beginning of “Marriage”?

5. What did Daehyun’s mother and Jiyoung’s mother say their daughters had been too busy doing to learn to keep a home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Jiyoung learn while out for drinks with colleagues that weekend her “drive and faith” (112) when it came to her work?

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

4. Where did Jiyoung receive her first job offer?

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

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

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

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 say to her after she said she was not going to attend graduation and how did her mother reply?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing the different ways women were treating during Jiyoung’s college years. Use direct examples from the text to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 3

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

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