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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hansu tell Sunja that she must do at the end of Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Try to find a different job.
(b) Go to university to support her family.
(c) Convince Yoseb to go back to Korea.
(d) Take the boys to a sweet potato farm outside of Osaka to escape the bombing.

2. What does Pastor Shin want Sunja to do in Book One, Chapter 10?
(a) Throw herself into the sea.
(b) Not throw her burdens on Isak.
(c) Find someone else to marry.
(d) Ask forgiveness from God.

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

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

5. What does Yangin go to get after Isak and Sunja’s marriage ceremony in Book One, Chapter 10?
(a) White rice for rice cakes.
(b) Toffee sweets.
(c) Kimchi.
(d) A new dress for Sunja.

6. What does Sunja sell for Yoseb's debt in Book One, Chapter 16?
(a) Her virginity.
(b) The gold plated watch Hansu gave to her.
(c) The pair of wooden ducks Dokhee and Bokhee gave to her.
(d) The two gold rings Yangjin gave to her.

7. What does Sunja think when she sees Yangjin for the first time since Yeongdo in Book Two, Chapter 7?
(a) She wishes she stayed in Korea.
(b) She looks so old.
(c) She does not know how to express her happiness.
(d) Her mother has shrunk.

8. Where had Hansu spent his boyhood exploring as he tells Sunja in Book One, Chapter 5?
(a) Osaka.
(b) The Taejongdae forest.
(c) The Jeju mountain and Halla-san volcano.
(d) Yeongo.

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

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

11. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to call him in Book One, Chapter 5?
(a) Zaddy.
(b) Oprah.
(c) Oppa.
(d) Daddy.

12. Why was Isak surprised he graduated seminary school as described in Book One, Chapter 8?
(a) He did not think he would live long.
(b) He did not like the schooling.
(c) He did not believe in God.
(d) He did not think he was a good student.

13. How had Sunja been proud of her father's kindness as described in Book One, Chapter 9?
(a) The way a child in a rich family would be proud of her father's enormous house and many goats.
(b) The way she is proud of the trees from springing out of the driest lands.
(c) The way a poor child might be proud of her father's thrift and innovation.
(d) The way a child in a rich family would be proud of her father's bags of rice and gold rings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Yoseb brought to Tamaguchi’s farm in Book Two, Chapter 8?

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

3. Who is Mozasu's new friend in school in Book Two, Chapter 10?

4. What does the the arrival of Sunja’s baby interrupt for midwife Okja in Book One, Chapter 17?

5. What does Mozasu do each Saturday after he starts working at the pachinko parlor in Book Two, Chapter 12?

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