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

2. How does Isak arrive in Yeongdu from Pyongyang in Book One, Chapter 2?
(a) He waits for a local farmer to give him a ride.
(b) He flies.
(c) He takes a train and then a ferry.
(d) He takes a train and then walks.

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

4. What does Coalman Jan say is Isak's religion in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Islamic.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Presbyterian.

5. Why are the male lodger's clothes not washed often enough as described in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) They like the smell of fish.
(b) They prefer them dirty.
(c) Their clothes do not get very dirty.
(d) They own very little and do not like to bother to wash clothes that will just get dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isak say to Yangjin when he realizes he has tuberculosis in Book One, Chapter 3?

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

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

4. According to Book One, Chapter 4, Koh Hansu is a what?

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

(see the answer key)

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