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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 Yangjin tell Sunja on her deathbed in Book Three, Chapter 12?

2. In Book Three, chapter 20, what does Goro-san tell Solomon about the old Korean woman’s property?

3. What languages does the Baek family speak at family gatherings with Phoebe as described in Book Three Chapter 18?

4. What does Noa say to Sunja as parting words in Book Two, Chapter 19?

5. What does Mozasu do to get Yumi's attention in Book Two, Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads Haruki to become a police officer as described in Book Two, Chapter 17? Who recommends him to join?

2. What does Noa's letter to Sunja and the Baek family say Book Two, Chapter Twenty after he learns Hansu is his father?

3. What does Yangjin say in her pent-up final thoughts to Sunja in Book Three, Chapter 12?

4. How does Sunja feel seeing Hansu in the kitchen with her in Book Three, Chapter 4?

5. Why does Mozasu not want Solomon to take over the family business in Book Three, Chapter 21?

6. Why is Mozasu promoted to foreman of Paradaisu Seven in Book Two, Chapter 16?

7. Why does Sunja go to Koh Hansu with Noa in Book Two, Chapter 13 What does Koh Hansu say?

8. What does Kuroda-san lecture about the Jewish people in Daniel Deronda that Akiko reacts against in Book Two, Chapter 15?

9. How does Solomon get his name as told in Book Three, Chapter 10?

10. How does Mozasu remember experiencing Yumi's funeral in Book Three, Chapter 3?

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

In the third book of Pachinko, with the war over, Japan begins to rebuild and Western influences begin to change society. What new ideas are introduced? How does this shape what the characters think of and what they want? What characters display new ideas or Western influence? Akiko and Yumi may be two examples of characters whose outlook is shaped by the ideas of the United States and Europe. Use at least three examples from the novel to develop a thesis: How does the outside influence of the United States, Europe, and the West affect the characters lives in the third book of Pachinko?

Essay Topic 3

On Yangjin's deathbed, the following passage takes place:

"Go-saeng, Yangjin said out loud, "A woman's lot is to suffer."

"Yes, go-saeng," Kyunghee nodded, repeating the word for suffering.

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from the other women, that they must suffer---suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother--die suffering. Go-saeng---the word made her sick. What else was there besides this. She had suffered to create a better life for Noa, and yet it was not enough. Should she have taught her son to suffer the humiliation that she'd drunk like water? In the end, he had refused to suffer the conditions of his birth. Did mother's fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come?" (420).

How in this passage and elsewhere is suffering different for women than it is from men? How are men allowed to live differently than women? And when Sunja thinks about teaching Noa to deal with suffering as she has, how is the way she has learned to handle the world different than the way he has learned? Analyze this passage, and then use two other examples in the text to support a claim.

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