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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: Chapter 5 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yangjin think about Isak when she first sees him in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) She wants him to marry her daughter.
(b) She thinks he looks sick.
(c) He could pass as a rich Japanese.
(d) He could pass as a wealthy Korean.

2. According to Book One, Chapter 4, Koh Hansu is a what?
(a) Pachinko parlor owner.
(b) Con man.
(c) Fish broker.
(d) Pimp.

3. What are the Korean market women called as described in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) Ajummas.
(b) Mommas.
(c) The true bosses of Yeongdo.
(d) Women.

4. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to be careful for in Book One, Chapter 4?
(a) The colonial government looking for Korean women to take to China.
(b) The crowded marketplace.
(c) Slippery rocks.
(d) Sharks.

5. Why does Isak travel in spite of his mother and doctor not approving as described in Book One, Chapter 7?
(a) He did not want to stay in Pyongyang any more.
(b) He found life in Korea boring.
(c) The church in Osaka asks him to come.
(d) He wanted to join the revolutionaries in Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Hansu spent his boyhood exploring as he tells Sunja in Book One, Chapter 5?

2. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to call him in Book One, Chapter 5?

3. Why was Isak surprised he graduated seminary school as described in Book One, Chapter 8?

4. What does the matchmaker take as signs of the prosperity of Hoonie's family in Book One, Chapter One?

5. What does Coalman Jan say is Isak's religion in Book One, Chapter 3?

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