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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction, Prologue, and Part One: The Greatest Nation on Earth, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hyeonseo says that she has learned that people can do without almost anything, but they cannot do without what?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Food.
(c) Family.
(d) Friends.

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

3. How many gradations of status exist within the three broad categories of songbun?
(a) 75.
(b) 36.
(c) 11.
(d) 51.

4. The author states that once she entered kindergarten, she never again belonged to her parents, but instead belonged to whom?
(a) Her future husband.
(b) Kim Il-sung.
(c) Kim Jong-il.
(d) The state.

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) Business is booming more than ever.
(c) It has become dilapidated.
(d) It is choked with industrial waste.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only members of which class are allowed to live in Pyongyang?

2. When Hyeonseo's father rushes back into the burning house, what items does he emerge from the house carrying?

3. What does hyeon mean in Korean?

4. What document does a North Korean citizen need in order to even leave their local county?

5. For North Korean citizens, joining the Young Pioneer Corps is compulsory in the years between what two ages?

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