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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 Yoseb tell Isak not to do to avoid trouble in the ghetto in Book One, Chapter 12?
(a) Not the wave to the neighbors.
(b) Not to lend money to the neighbors.
(c) Not to eat too much kimchi.
(d) Not to make a lot of noise at night.

2. What does the the arrival of Sunja’s baby interrupt for midwife Okja in Book One, Chapter 17?
(a) Her sleep.
(b) Her dinner.
(c) Her husband's drunken rant.
(d) Her local gambling game.

3. Why does Mozasu find school difficult in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) School is too easy for him.
(b) He does not know how to read.
(c) He wants to run outside and play instead.
(d) Kids tease him and he struggles with schoolwork.

4. 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.

5. What does Yangjin think happened to Dokhee and Bokhee in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) They were taken to China to be prostitutes for Japanese soldiers.
(b) They went to China to start new families.
(c) They found work in Osaka.
(d) They were taken to China to be prostitutes for Japanese soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yoseb tell Hansu he knows in Book Two, Chapter 8?

2. How does Yoseb know the restaurant that Sunja and Kyunghee are talking about in Book Two, Chapter 3?

3. What does Kim say about his politics to Kyunghee in Book Two, Chapter 9?

4. What vulgar thing does Yoseb say to shame Sunja when he finds out she has paid his debts in Book One, Chapter 17?

5. How much does Yoseb owe the money collector in total as described in Book One, Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sunja deal with Mozasu's fighting in Book Two, Chapter 11?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Hansu tell Sunja she must leave Osaka in Book Two, Chapter 6? What does he tell her she must do?

7. What does the ajumma tell Sunja about a women's life and the man she will marry in Chapter Three?

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

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

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

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