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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 the matchmaker take as signs of the prosperity of Hoonie's family in Book One, Chapter One?
(a) Stacks of gold coins in the corner.
(b) Food and livestock both in and outside the house.
(c) Local village gossips.
(d) Lots of family heirlooms in the house.

2. How was Isak when he was growing up as described in Book One, Chapter 7?
(a) A privileged invalid who had servants to help him with what he could not do.
(b) A little boy running about the garden eating apples.
(c) The healthiest young boy in his family
(d) A devout child who only wanted to become a pastor.

3. How had Koh Hansu's father been as described in Book One, Chapter 5?
(a) A gambler who had spent all the family's money.
(b) A drunk who had been hard on his son in spite of Hansu working to support them.
(c) A caring and loving father.
(d) Hansu's role model.

4. What does Hoonie learn at school in Book One, Chapter One?
(a) To read and write some Korean and Japanese.
(b) Calculus.
(c) To read and write some Korean and Japanese and to do some small mathematical sums.
(d) English Literature.

5. What does Sunja tell Hansu when she finds out he is married in Book One, Chapter 6?
(a) "I want to get married immediately" (51).
(b) "I will be your mistress" (51).
(c) "My father would have hated you" (51).
(d) "I will never see you again" (51).

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Korean market women called as described in Book One, Chapter 4?

2. How many times does Yangjin give birth before Sunja survives in Book One, Chapter One?

3. How does Isak arrive in Yeongdu from Pyongyang in Book One, Chapter 2?

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

5. What does Sunja think when she first sees Hansu again in Book One, Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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