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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 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) How he liked her shoes.
(c) How he liked her hair.
(d) If he noticed she was pregnant.

2. What does Ji-won's mother do to her apples?
(a) Poaches them.
(b) Peels them.
(c) Throws them away.
(d) Cooks them into applesauce.

3. What does Anjali's mother do to her hair?
(a) Dyes it.
(b) Sells it.
(c) Cuts it short.
(d) Styles it in a strange way.

4. What is Chun-ja's injury in the Korean disaster?
(a) She loses a leg.
(b) She loses a foot.
(c) She loses an eye.
(d) She loses an arm.

5. 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) It was where his father told him to start a business.
(c) He believed the neighborhood was improving.
(d) It was where he believed it would be best to raise children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sae-ri ask Matthew if he did with his teeth when he lost them in Korea?

2. Who does Soo say will drive her to the revival?

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

4. Which market do Sae-ri and her mother often visit before she leaves for America?

5. What is Anjali's favorite snack?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Soo's brief conversation with Ki-tae's wife like?

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

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

5. What does Sae-ri tell Matthew when she comes to collect him at Last Chance Ranch?

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

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

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

9. How does Soo seem to feel about the store she and Jae run together in the story "The Church of Abundant Life?"

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

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