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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 43-53 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what location do Hyeonseo and her family meet Reverend Kim's broker?
(a) At the Kunming market.
(b) At the Kunming library.
(c) At the Kunming bus station.
(d) At the Kunming airport.

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

3. What aspect of the songbun system is kept secret from those residing within its levels?
(a) The names of those within the Hostile class.
(b) Job assignments.
(c) Marriage arrangements.
(d) Precise ranking.

4. What did Hyeonseo's mother do immediately upon seeing her husband in the Hyesan hospital?
(a) She hugs him.
(b) She sobs.
(c) She screams.
(d) She faints.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What key word does Hyeonseo tell herself when she is trying to make it through her interrogation successfully?

2. What does Hyeonseo eventually find out had happened to the money she had given to her mother?

3. When Hyeonseo's Uncle Jung-gil tells her that Kim Jong-Il had not been born in Korea, where does he say Kim Jong-il had been born instead?

4. How does Hyeonseo's mother escape the grasp of the Bowibu who have denounced her?

5. What was listed as Hyeonseo's father's cause of death after her mother had bribed the hospital authorities to falsify it?

(see the answer key)

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