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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sae-ri's mother do in the mornings in the time before Sae-ri leaves Korea?
2. What happens to Soo when she tries to have children with Jae?
3. What changes Ji-won's mother's behavior in the beginning of this story?
4. What disaster took the lives of many in Korea, including those of some of Soo's and Jae's acquaintances?
5. What does Anjali's mother do to her hair?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Ji-won understand her parents' feelings about the new baby on its way?
2. How does Soo feel when she and Jae are driving back from the revival?
3. In the story "First Language," how does Sae-ri feel about the Last Chance Ranch?
4. How does Soo seem to feel about the store she and Jae run together in the story "The Church of Abundant Life?"
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. How does Sae-ri feel about her husband after some years of marriage?
8. As a student applying for college, how does Ji-won look back on her time of friendship with Anjali?
9. Why was Soo so disappointed when she first came to America from Korea as a young married woman?
10. What is Soo's brief conversation with Ki-tae's wife like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "A Map of the Simplified World," what sacrifices does Li Ji-Won make as she grows up in the service of assimilating into American culture? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
In "Song and Song," why does Charis's school speech affect Minyoung so dramatically? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
In "The Art of Losing," how does Cho convey Mo-sae's perception of the world as someone suffering from Alzheimer's to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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