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

2. What did Ki-tae used to teach Soo?
(a) Math.
(b) Medicine.
(c) English.
(d) Law.

3. What do guests traditionally shower the bride and groom with in a Korean wedding?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Dates and chestnuts.
(c) Water.
(d) Rice.

4. Where does Jae get some of his money for his investments?
(a) The council.
(b) His parents.
(c) The kye.
(d) The federal government.

5. What does Soo tell Jae not to worry about regarding himself when she travels to the revival?
(a) Taking the dog out with his broken leg.
(b) His television - she has already fixed it.
(c) His dinner - she will cook and leave something for him.
(d) His gambling money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the Last Chance Ranch?

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

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

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

5. What is an important factor in making a match in Korea?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sae-ri feel about her husband after some years of marriage?

2. In what ways does Ji-won begin to rebel a bit against her mother's ways as a child?

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

4. How does Sae-ri's husband react when he first finds out about Matthew?

5. Why do Soo and Jae have no children?

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

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

8. Why was Soo so disappointed when she first came to America from Korea as a young married woman?

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

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

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