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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sae-ri think of James as a father?
(a) He is a very good father.
(b) He is an angry father.
(c) He provides financially for the children but lacks emotional engagement.
(d) He is an indifferent father.

2. What is the only book Matthew will read?
(a) Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
(b) Manhwa.
(c) Star Wars.
(d) Dune.

3. Who actually drives Soo to the revival?
(a) Ki-tae.
(b) Jae.
(c) Mrs. Ro.
(d) Mr. Ro.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What garment does Soo come across in trying to decide what to wear to the revival?

2. What does Sae-ri consider doing instead of going to America to get married in an arranged marriage?

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

4. What is Chun-ja's injury in the Korean disaster?

5. What do Soo and Jae eat on the way to the revival?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sae-ri sometimes feel that she is a less than good mother?

2. Why does Sae-ri's mother finally send Matthew over to America and to Sae-ri from Korea?

3. What is Soo's relationship with Jae like in the present?

4. Why does Sae-ri's son, Matthew, go to the Last Chance Ranch?

5. What happens in Ji-won's school that leads to Anjali being treated as an outcast?

6. In "A Map of the Simplified World," why is it so exciting to Ji-won to have a friend in Anjali?

7. Why does the director of the Last Chance Ranch call Sae-ri and tell her to pick her son up?

8. Why does Soo want to go see Ki-tae as he passes nearby in a traveling revival?

9. How does Sae-ri think of her own character as she was as a young woman?

10. How does Ji-won understand her parents' feelings about the new baby on its way?

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