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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ji-won overhear saying racist things in school?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The principal.
(c) The guidance counselor.
(d) The nurse.

2. What animals does Sae-ri see at the Last Chance Ranch that she briefly wonders if only she can see?
(a) Horses.
(b) Elk.
(c) Lambs.
(d) Wolves.

3. Who set Sae-ri up with her husband?
(a) Big Grandmother.
(b) Big Sister.
(c) Big Friend.
(d) Big Mother.

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

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

6. What does Soo plan on doing when she goes to the revival that is not related to the revival at all?
(a) Going to the diamond district.
(b) Going to the garment district.
(c) Seeing her sister.
(d) Going to the Asian supermarket to shop.

7. Why did Jae buy his store in the area he did when he first moved to America?
(a) He got tax incentives from the government for buying there.
(b) He believed the neighborhood was improving.
(c) It was where he believed it would be best to raise children.
(d) It was where his father told him to start a business.

8. What did Soo ask Jae about when he picked her up at the airport in America for the first time?
(a) How he liked her shoes.
(b) If he noticed how much her English had improved.
(c) How he liked her hair.
(d) If he noticed she was pregnant.

9. What is the largest amount of money Soo and Jae have made in the store on a Saturday?
(a) $300.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $700.
(d) $1,000.

10. Where is Ji-won's new friend originally from?
(a) China.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) India.

11. What reputation did Sae-ri used to have as a young girl in Korea?
(a) She was very musically talented.
(b) She was brash and non-decorous.
(c) She was shy.
(d) She was brilliant.

12. What is the job Ki-tae does?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Pastor.
(d) Teacher.

13. What language does Sae-ri think it is easy to lie in?
(a) The one that is not your first language.
(b) Your first language.
(c) Your third language.
(d) Your second language.

14. What word means unconditional love in Korean?
(a) Feng.
(b) Jeong.
(c) Sui.
(d) Geong.

15. Who does Ji-won's father work for?
(a) Mr. Estrin.
(b) Mr. Song.
(c) Mr. Smith.
(d) Mr. Hendricks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disaster took the lives of many in Korea, including those of some of Soo's and Jae's acquaintances?

2. Where did James take the family the first night Matthew arrived in the country?

3. Who does Soo meet at the revival that it surprises her to see?

4. Where was Ji-won's old apartment that she sometimes thinks about?

5. In "First Language," what does Sae-ri wait for many months to get before moving to America?

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