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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. When Hyeonseo and the other workers enter their workplace, they pass through "a special machine" (160) that does what?
(a) Demagnetizes.
(b) Blows contaminates from clothing.
(c) Detects metal.
(d) Provides x-rays.

2. After their first phone conversation after many years of separation, how often do Hyeonseo and her mother speak on the phone?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Every evening.
(c) Every morning.
(d) Every weekend.

3. At what age does Hyeonseo witness her first public execution?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seven.
(d) Fourteen.

4. When Hyeonseo heard the news that some local young women had been caught listening to South Korean pop music, what was their allocated punishment?
(a) They are forced to move to a different county.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are exiled from North Korea.
(d) They are sentenced to a prison camp.

5. When Hyeonseo leaves her waitressing job, what position does she take instead?
(a) Interpreter and secretary.
(b) Washerwoman and housekeeper.
(c) Cook and hostess.
(d) Librarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Hyeonseo and Min-ho stay while their mother tended to their father in the Hyesan hospital?

2. What object does Hyeonseo's first customer in her new job ask her for when she mistakenly gives him a piece of gum?

3. At the time of her writing, how many years ago does Hyeonseo say North Korea had been created?

4. Hyeonseo states that every election in North Korea always "returned Kim Jong-il with" what "percentage approval" (111)?

5. To what figure is Chapter 14's title referring in its statement that "The great heart has stopped beating" on the chapter's title page?

(see the answer key)

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