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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. Where is Sae-ri driving with her husband in the opening pages of "First Language"?
(a) The Meadowlands.
(b) Madison Square Garden.
(c) Newark Airport.
(d) The Last Chance Ranch.

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

3. What happens in Ji-won's class that upsets all the children and parents?
(a) The teacher's illness.
(b) A violent attack.
(c) A lice outbreak.
(d) The bullying that starts.

4. What does Sae-ri ask Matthew if he did with his teeth when he lost them in Korea?
(a) Bury them in the yard.
(b) Put them under his pillow.
(c) Throw them on the roof for the blackbird to get them.
(d) Sell them to the tooth-buyer.

5. What is Soo thinking about when she and Jae drive home from the revival?
(a) All the mundane things she has to manage the next day.
(b) Her past.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her lost children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Soo tell Jae not to worry about regarding himself when she travels to the revival?

3. What airport did Jae pick Soo up at when she first arrived in America?

4. Who is the matchmaker Sae-ri's mother consulted with about her inheritance?

5. What animals does Sae-ri see at the Last Chance Ranch that she briefly wonders if only she can see?

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