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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Yoseb name Isak and Sunja’s new baby boy in Book One, Chapter 17?
2. Who is Kim in love with in Book Two, Chapter 9?
3. What are the Korean market women called as described in Book One, Chapter 4?
4. How was Isak when he was growing up as described in Book One, Chapter 7?
5. What does Hansu give Sunja as a gift in Book One, Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Isak describe Yoseb to Sunja in Book One, Chapter 13?
2. What things does Isak ask Sunja about marrying him in Book One, Chapter 9? Why does he ask these these?
3. Why is Sunja so determined to pay off Yoseb’s debt in Book One, Chapter 16?
4. How does Sunja understand forgiveness differently than Pastor Shin means it in Book One, Chapter 10?
5. How does Sunja deal with Mozasu's fighting in Book Two, Chapter 11?
6. What does Hansu tell Kim Changho about the Korean nationalist groups in Book Two, Chapter Nine?
7. What parting advice does Yangjin give Sunja before she gets on the train in Book One, Chapter 10?
8. From Book One, Chapter 8, what happens in the Book of Hosea in the Bible and why?
9. In Book Two, Chapter 5, why does Isak tell Noa he must still go to school even though Isak is dying?
10. How has the war helped Tamaguchi? What does he think about the war continuing in Book Two, Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the beginning of Pachinko, Hoonie's parents raise him according to the ideal that, "a spoiled son did more harm to the family than a dead one" (6). Later, we see characters such as Sunja and Hansu thinking and speaking about how their parents treated them. We see Noa commit suicide based on his parentage. How does the way different parents raise their children affect the way these children represent their families and carry out their lives? How do they raise their children as a result? Use at least two characters to develop an argument. Finally, does what Hoonie's parents use for raising their son hold true for the rest of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Both Yoseb and Isak begin wanting to support their families, and then are in some way injured or kept from being able to provide. What are each of these men's outlook on life in the beginning of the novel? And then with the events that happen to them, how does their outlook on life change or stay the same? What keeps their character in place? Or what pushes them to snap? Compare and contrast their experiences, and create a thesis answering what leads them to act differently from one another when there are divergences.
Essay Topic 3
Noa and Mozasu are raised alongside one another and eventually both come to be working in pachinko parlors in different places in Japan. While Noa eventually commits suicide, Mozasu continues along working and raising his son. How do their different outlooks on life lead to different futures for them? Use at least three examples for each of the brothers to compare how they are similar and/or different. How does their upbringing, knowledge of their father, or things they are told about the world shape the actions in their lives? Finally, extend this larger: what does the novel show by putting these two characters alongside one another?
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