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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 some interviewers touched Jiyoung during her many job interviews in “Adulthood”?

2. In which club did Jiyoung meet her first boyfriend?

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

4. During what part of her pregnancy did Jiyoung suffer morning sickness?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Jiyoung receive her first job offer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the sensory details used in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Be sure to explain the deeper meaning and thematic significance of these details.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Jiyoung’s relationship with her husband. Use examples from the text to show how their relationship develops over time and how it represents the themes of the novel.

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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