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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kim say about his politics to Kyunghee in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) He wants to become the leader of the freedom movement.
(b) He is a communist.
(c) He does not want others to take over Korea.
(d) He wants Korea to be controlled by a nation that will be able to help it.

2. Why does Sunja tell Isak that she can love his God in Book One, Chapter 9?
(a) Because she wants to deceive him.
(b) Because she is familiar with spirits and Gods and so thinks she can love his God as well.
(c) Because she will agree with anything that Isak says.
(d) Because she spoke to the spirits and they said it was ok.

3. What does Goro's first clothing order for Mozasu allow Totoyama to do in Book Two, Chapter 12?
(a) Pay that month's rent.
(b) Pay for daycare.
(c) Take care of her family.
(d) Buy a new shop.

4. What does Isak say to Yangjin when he realizes he has tuberculosis in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) "I will stay here till I am better."
(b) "Get me a doctor."
(c) "I should leave. I do not want to endanger you."
(d) "It is probably not tuberculosis."

5. What does Yoseb name Isak and Sunja’s new baby boy in Book One, Chapter 17?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Isak.
(d) Noa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Pastor Yoo tell Isak he can pay him in Book One, Chapter 14?

2. What does Noa tell Sunja when he returns from the biscuit factory in Book Two, Chapter 5?

3. What does Sunja tell Hansu when she finds out he is married in Book One, Chapter 6?

4. Where do Kyunghee and Sunja meet the moneylender boss in Book One, Chapter 16?

5. What does Hoonie learn at school in Book One, Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Yoseb and Hansu's plans for the Baek family in Book Two, Chapter 8? How are they different?

2. How does the novel describe Ikaino in Book One, Chapter 12?

3. What does Sunja think about herself and her family when she realizes Hansu will not marry her in Book One, Chapter 6?

4. How does Isak describe Yoseb to Sunja in Book One, Chapter 13?

5. What does Hansu tell Kim Changho about the Korean nationalist groups in Book Two, Chapter Nine?

6. How does Pastor Yoo resolve the siblings quarrel in Book One, Chapter 14 and why?

7. What does Yoseb think of the Japanese war in China in Book Two, Chapter 3? How does the way he thinks about it connect with the larger philosophy of Korean people?

8. What figurative language does Sunja use to think about the stories Koh Hansu tells her in Book One, Chapter 5? Why does she try to store everything he tells her?

9. Where and why are Pastor Yoo, Sexton Hu, and Isak arrested as described in Book Two, Chapter 2?

10. How is Mozasu becoming a "bad Korean"in Book Two, Chapter 10? What does he think about this?

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