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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 Jae do every Sunday?

2. Where is the revival Soo wants to attend?

3. Where is Sae-ri driving with her husband in the opening pages of "First Language"?

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

5. Who set Sae-ri up with her husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Ji-won begin to build bonds with Fran?

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

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

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

7. How do Sae-ri and her husband afford the exorbitant cost of the Last Chance Ranch?

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

9. What tragedy launched Ki-tae's career as a preacher?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Choi chooses to focus many of the stories in this collection on different aspects of the immigrant experience in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

What contrasts does Sae-ri draw between "typical" marital relationships in Korea versus what she understands of the same in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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