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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Noa say to Sunja before she leaves in Book Three, Chapter 8?
(a) He traveled to America.
(b) He wants her to meet his children.
(c) He will come by next week.
(d) He plans to kill himself.

2. Why does Hana tell Solomon in Book Three, Chapter 19 that she could not have stayed with him?
(a) Because she could not see any other way to be happy.
(b) Because the hurt she held towards her parents was so deep that she could not show love to anyone else.
(c) Because she felt certain she would hurt him.
(d) Because she wanted o explore the world.

3. Why does Hana tell Solomon she will forgive him about his girlfriend in Book Three, Chapter 19?
(a) Because she wants to marry him.
(b) Because she knows she will not live for long.
(c) Because he loved Hana first.
(d) Because she knows Phoebe will dump him.

4. What does Etsuko say to Mozasu that Yumi would have thought about Solomon in Book Three, Chapter 11?
(a) Yumi would have thought he was too easygoing.
(b) Yumi would have been pleased about Solomon.
(c) Yumi would have thought he was so accomplished.
(d) Yumi would have wanted something different for her son.

5. Why does Phoebe say to Sunja and Kyunghee in Book Three, Chapter 18 that she grew up eating fast food?
(a) Her mother and father were both working, and her mother did not like to cook.
(b) Phoebe and her brothers would cry as kids if they got other kinds of food.
(c) Americans prefer the taste of fast food to any other kind of food.
(d) Unprocessed food is too expensive in developed America.

6. Where does Ayame want to move after Totoyama-san's death in Book Three, Chapter 6?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Hokkaido.
(c) Pyongyang.
(d) Yokohama.

7. In Book Three, chapter 20, what does Goro-san tell Solomon about the old Korean woman’s property?
(a) That the client bought the property from him.
(b) That the client rejected the property after the woman's death.
(c) That it is a bad piece of property anyways.
(d) That Solomon should not have asked him to help with the deal.

8. What do Etsuko, Solomon, and Mozasu go to get in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) Solomon's foriegn national registration.
(b) Solomon's driver license.
(c) Solomon's learner permit.
(d) Solomon's birthday present.

9. What had Noa not thought of before Akiko speaks out in class in Book Two, Chapter 15?
(a) To fall in love with a woman.
(b) To take a lover.
(c) To find a new way to express himself.
(d) To disagree with the professor.

10. What does Hansu tell Sunja in Book Three, Chapter 3 to get her to listen to him?
(a) "I've only ever loved you" (354).
(b) "I'm dying” (354).
(c) "I want to marry you" (354).
(d) "I'm so sorry for everything" (354).

11. What does Hana tell Solomon to do in Book Three, Chapter 20?
(a) To find new ways to exercise his anger.
(b) To take over his father's chess business.
(c) To find a ways to return to America.
(d) To take over his father's pachinko business.

12. What does one of the men at the poker game tease Solomon about at the end of Book Three, Chapter 16?
(a) His father being in pachinko.
(b) His father being yakuza.
(c) Him being a spoiled brat.
(d) Him being unable to ever win at poker.

13. What does Sunja find from the graveyard groundkeeper in Book Three, Chapter 21?
(a) That Noa wanted to be reunited with Sunja more than anything else.
(b) That Isak occasionally took to walking his old bones through the graveyard at night.
(c) That Noa's favorite book was Like Water for Chocolate.
(d) That Noa would visit Isak's grave.

14. In Book Three, Chapter 12, what TV show do Kyunghee, Sunja, and Yangjin watch together?
(a) Never Lands.
(b) Other Lands.
(c) Broad-en Your Horizons.
(d) A Japanese Broad A-Broad.

15. In Book Two, Chapter 17, where does Yumi want to live?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Senora Wakamura say on Other Lands in Book Three, Chapter 12?

2. What does Solomon do with his winning poker hand in Book Three, Chapter 16?

3. From Book Three, Chapter 5, why does Iwamura-san not like Noa?

4. In Book Two, Chapter 7, what does the father of the boy tell Haruki when Haruki says he can not prosecute the other children?

5. What does Mozasu want for Solomon as the novel says in Book Three, Chapter 11?

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