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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 the cab driver who took Jiyoung to her first job interview tell her?
2. What was Jiyoung’s college boyfriend’s major?
3. Who is meeting for the first time at the beginning of “Marriage”?
4. After Jiyoung and her boyfriend broke up, what did she find him doing outside the porridge shop was morning?
5. How did Jiyoung feel after Daehyun’s family interrogated her about having a child on a trip to Busan?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Jiyoung ultimately agree that their child should keep her father’s surname rather than her mothers?
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. What did people say after Jiyoung’s ex-boyfriend was found passed out drunk outside the porridge shop?
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. 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 was one of the reasons Daehyun had more savings than Jiyoung when they first married?
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 how the social expectations of a woman and mother have led Jiyoung to psychosis. Use examples from each chapter to support your analysis.
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 explaining the significance of the title of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. How does the title support the overall narrative tone and theme of the novel?
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