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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 was Jiyoung’s college boyfriend’s major?

2. What did Jiyoung’s mother convince her father to open in the building across from their old fried chicken shop?

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

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

5. How did Daehyun’s family react when Jiyoung told them they wanted to wait to have children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the novel 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 describing the systemic misogyny Jiyoung experienced in the chapter entitled “Childhood.”

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