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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. What quality of Hyesan does Hyeonseo say leads to its status as a moneymaking town?
(a) Its location across the Yalu River from China.
(b) Its proximity to Pyongyang.
(c) Its merchant class.
(d) Its military status.

2. What level of the caste system is made up of 10-15% of the North Korean population?
(a) Elite.
(b) Royal.
(c) Kim family employees.
(d) Wavering.

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

4. What percentage of North Korea's population consistently falls within the Hostile category of the songbun caste system?
(a) 10%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 20%.

5. What does Hyeonseo say is the only "permitted outlet for spiritual fervor" (41) in North Korea?
(a) Self-criticism sessions.
(b) One Catholic mass per year.
(c) The business trade.
(d) Kim worship.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Hyeonseo and her family move back to Hyesan, they find that the city has changed in what way?

3. During what activity does the author say is the only time she and her classmates called each other "comrade" (33)?

4. Hyeonseo says that she will never be truly free of her country's what, no matter how far she travels?

5. How many broad categories exist within the caste system of songbun?

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