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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 Noa say to Sunja as parting words in Book Two, Chapter 19?
2. What does Mozasu do to get Yumi's attention in Book Two, Chapter 16?
3. From Book Three, Chapter 5, why does Iwamura-san not like Noa?
4. What does one of the men at the poker game tease Solomon about at the end of Book Three, Chapter 16?
5. Where does Solomon go when Kazu fires him in Book Three, Chapter 19?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Mozasu promoted to foreman of Paradaisu Seven in Book Two, Chapter 16?
2. Why does Solomon get fired from his job in Book Three, Chapter 19?
3. Why does Hansu care so much about Noa's education from the background in Book Two, Chapter 18?
4. In Book Three, Chapter Twenty, what does Goro-san say happened with the Korean woman's property that Solomon asked him to purchase? What does Solomon realize when he hears this?
5. Where does Etsuko finally find Hana in Book Three, Chapter 15? What does Etsuko do when she sees her?
6. What does Hana tell Solomon in their final meeting in Book Three, Chapter 20?
7. What does Kuroda-san lecture about the Jewish people in Daniel Deronda that Akiko reacts against in Book Two, Chapter 15?
8. What does Ayame find and experience at the park on the walk home from the bathhouse in Book Three, Chapter 6? What does she see and experience when she returns to the park a second time?
9. How does Sunja feel seeing Hansu in the kitchen with her in Book Three, Chapter 4?
10. Why does Noa go to Nagano in Book Three, Chapter 1 after he finds Hansu is his father?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
The theme of shame is prevalent throughout the novel Pachinko. When Sunja sleeps with Hansu, she brings shame upon herself and her family. Later in the novel, on the television show "Other Lands," a Japanese woman who has moved abroad says, "I have never been to Japan [...] but I hope wherever I am in life, I can be a good Japanese. I hope never to bring shame to my people" (419). Choose two characters and explore how shame shapes their lives. Where does this shame come from? What societal ideals or expectations hold up shame? Is it rational? How do characters find ways to absolve this pain?
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