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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 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.

2. How does Yoseb know the restaurant that Sunja and Kyunghee are talking about in Book Two, Chapter 3?
(a) He knows it as a gangster den.
(b) He knows it as the place his friend owns.
(c) He goes there every night after work to eat and drink.
(d) He went there to originally ask for the loan that Sunja payed back for him.

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

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

5. 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 spoke to the spirits and they said it was ok.
(c) Because she is familiar with spirits and Gods and so thinks she can love his God as well.
(d) Because she will agree with anything that Isak says.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sunja begin doing for work in Book Two, Chapter 2?

3. How did Isak's older brother, Samoel, die as described in Book One, Chapter 8?

4. What does Yoseb tell Isak about political groups in Book One, Chapter 13?

5. Who does Mozasu visit to flirt with in Book Two, Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Isak think about when he realizes he is sick with tuberculosis at the end of Book One, Chapter 3?

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

4. How does Sunja understand forgiveness differently than Pastor Shin means it in Book One, Chapter 10?

5. 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?

6. Why do the Chung brothers say that Japan will never conquer China in Book One, Chapter 2? Why do they support China?

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

8. What secrets does Noa keep to himself in Book Two, Chapter 4? Who does he keep these secrets from?

9. What is Kyunghee's dream she tells to Sunja in Book One, Chapter 15 and why can she not do it?

10. Why is Sunja so determined to pay off Yoseb’s debt in Book One, Chapter 16?

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