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

2. How did Soo first meet Jae?
(a) He was her brother's friend.
(b) He was Ki-tae's friend.
(c) He was a neighbor.
(d) The matchmaker connected them.

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

4. Who runs the Last Chance Ranch?
(a) Pastor Don.
(b) Pastor Ray.
(c) Pastor Ted.
(d) Pastor Winderson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ji-won do when she is passed a nasty note about Anjali from another student?

2. Where is Ji-won's new friend originally from?

3. Why does The Last Chance Ranch call to insist Sae-ri collects her son?

4. What language does Sae-ri think it is easy to lie in?

5. How does Chun-ja win Soo's gratitude?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the story "First Language," how does Sae-ri feel about the Last Chance Ranch?

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

3. How does Soo feel when she and Jae are driving back from the revival?

4. As a student applying for college, how does Ji-won look back on her time of friendship with Anjali?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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