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

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

3. What does seo mean in Korean?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Smile.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Health.

4. What does hyeon mean in Korean?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Sunshine.
(c) Smile.
(d) Good fortune.

5. Why does Hyeonseo's mother carry a candle to the door when meeting Hyeonseo's future father and her future husband for the second time?
(a) Because the power in the city is out.
(b) Because the power in the country is out.
(c) Because her father does not permit her to waste money on electricity at night.
(d) Because she thinks it will lend a romantic air to their reunion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of North Korea's population consistently falls within the Hostile category of the songbun caste system?

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

4. How old is Hyeonseo when the family's home catches on fire?

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

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