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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Greatest Nation on Earth, Chapters 10-12 and Part Two: To the Heart of the Dragon, Chapters 13-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hyeonseo and her family move back to Hyesan, they find that the city has changed in what way?
(a) It is choked with industrial waste.
(b) It has become dilapidated.
(c) Business is booming more than ever.
(d) Half of the population has been relocated.

2. Hyeonseo says that after a young woman does what in North Korean society, it can be hard for her to find a marriage match?
(a) Gets divorced.
(b) Dates.
(c) Turns eighteen.
(d) Becomes sexually active.

3. What was the last present Hyeonseo received from her father prior to his death?
(a) A tea set.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A hula-hoop.
(d) A doll.

4. The author states that while schooling in North Korea is technically free, what other condition is true?
(a) Education stops after the age of 8.
(b) Parents are required to pay the teachers' salaries.
(c) The Great Leader often demands education taxes.
(d) Parents are constantly being assigned quotas for donations of goods.

5. On what type of transport is Hyeonseo's mother traveling when she meets Hyeonseo's father?
(a) A trolley.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A train.
(d) A plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location in Hyesan did Hyeonseo name as a "common site for public executions" (73)?

2. What simile does Hyeonseo use to describe the fireball emanating from her childhood home?

3. What aspect of the songbun system is kept secret from those residing within its levels?

4. What did Hyeonseo do when she saw the starving infant and its mother in the market outside Wiyeon Station?

5. What aspect of Hyeonseo's mother's character does Hyeonseo say is unusual for a woman of high songbun?

(see the answer key)

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