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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II ("First Language" - "A Map of the Simplified World," Pages 57 - 110).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does The Last Chance Ranch call to insist Sae-ri collects her son?
(a) He has expressed romantic inclinations towards other boys there.
(b) He never speaks.
(c) He is violent.
(d) He has asked desperately to come home.

2. What does Jae seem to resent Soo for that comes up years after they move to America?
(a) She told him not to get his advanced degree.
(b) She had pressured him not to take a job with LG that he thought would have set them up for life.
(c) She forced him to take a bad job with her father.
(d) She pressured him to drop out of school to marry her.

3. What is one of Sae-ri's mother's concerns about the proposed husband waiting for Sae-ri in America?
(a) He is too young for her.
(b) He is not working.
(c) He already has children.
(d) He is too old for her.

4. Which author had Soo once loved as a young woman?
(a) O. Henry.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Jane Austen.

5. What does Sae-ri consider doing instead of going to America to get married in an arranged marriage?
(a) Faking her own death.
(b) Fleeing in Korea before she leaves for America.
(c) Killing herself.
(d) Marrying someone else in Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jae get his Korean newspaper?

2. How does Sae-ri have the money to send Matthew to the Last Chance Ranch?

3. In the story "A Map of the Simplified World," who is Ji-won's new friend?

4. What does Soo plan on doing when she goes to the revival that is not related to the revival at all?

5. What does Sae-ri's mother do in the mornings in the time before Sae-ri leaves Korea?

(see the answer key)

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