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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the American name of Sae-ri's son?
(a) Matthew.
(b) Fred.
(c) Richard.
(d) Robert.

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

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

5. Where did James take the family the first night Matthew arrived in the country?
(a) Friendley's.
(b) Steiner's.
(c) Red Robin.
(d) Basking Robins.

6. Where was Ji-won's old apartment that she sometimes thinks about?
(a) Kitow.
(b) Suwon.
(c) Geong.
(d) Seoul.

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

8. What airport did Jae pick Soo up at when she first arrived in America?
(a) Blessington.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Newark.
(d) Boston Logan.

9. Where is the revival Soo wants to attend?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New York.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Maryland.

10. Who is Ji-won's teacher?
(a) Mrs. Hendricks.
(b) Mrs. Jong.
(c) Mrs. Wilson.
(d) Mrs. Tally.

11. How does Sae-ri have the money to send Matthew to the Last Chance Ranch?
(a) She owns an apartment building.
(b) She owns a billboard.
(c) She sells her jewelry.
(d) She sells her book.

12. In the story "First Language," what is Sae-ri thinking as she drives with her husband in the opening paragraphs?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She has no idea what he is thinking.
(c) She is going to divorce him soon.
(d) She really dislikes him.

13. Why is Sae-ri not a very attractive prospect for men to marry in the beginning of this story?
(a) She has a child out of wedlock.
(b) She is poor.
(c) She is not considered attractive.
(d) She has a speech impediment.

14. What changes Ji-won's mother's behavior in the beginning of this story?
(a) Her pregnancy.
(b) Her depression.
(c) Her work obligations.
(d) Her cancer.

15. What disaster took the lives of many in Korea, including those of some of Soo's and Jae's acquaintances?
(a) The Sampoong Department Store collapse.
(b) The earthquake.
(c) The Tsunami.
(d) The bombing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Soo travel to America from years earlier?

2. What does Ji-won's mother do to her apples?

3. What is one of Sae-ri's mother's concerns about the proposed husband waiting for Sae-ri in America?

4. Who runs the Last Chance Ranch?

5. How did Sae-ri's sexual relationship with James change after he found out about Matthew?

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