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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hyeonseo says that after years in the Chinese workforce, she develops "an emotional attachment" (166) to what?
(a) Money.
(b) Her coworkers.
(c) Hard work.
(d) Material goods.

2. Just before Hyesan disappears from Hyeonseo's view, she thinks of the love and trust in her mother's eyes as she had told Hyeonseo not to stay out too late. What is NOT one way Hyeonseo says she feels at this moment?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Outsmarted.

3. How does Hyeonseo escape the painful and confusing truth her Uncle Jung-gil shares with her about North Korea?
(a) She focuses on her ice cream.
(b) She focuses on her cigarette.
(c) She focuses on her watch.
(d) She focuses on feeling sleepy.

4. What punishment does Hyeonseo impose on herself for hurting Geun-soo?
(a) She vows to eat only plain rice for one month.
(b) She vows to walk everywhere she goes for one year.
(c) She vows never to hurt another man again.
(d) She vows never to marry.

5. How does Hyeonseo's mother escape the grasp of the Bowibu who have denounced her?
(a) She screams in the street that she is being murdered and she is released.
(b) She climbs out of the bathroom window at the headquarters.
(c) She pleas for help from a passing taxi driver and jumps in.
(d) She hits one of the Bowibu over the head with her purse and runs.

6. Once Hyeonseo changes her mind and decides that she does want to see Kim before he goes back to Seoul, what does she do?
(a) She prays for a second chance.
(b) She asks Ok-hee to call Kim for her.
(c) She calls him and asks him to have coffee with her.
(d) She writes him a letter.

7. What instrument left behind by her cousin does Hyeonseo teach herself to play during her stay with her aunt and uncle in Shenyang?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A xylophone.
(c) A harpsichord.
(d) An accordion.

8. What object does Hyeonseo's first customer in her new job ask her for when she mistakenly gives him a piece of gum?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Honey.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) A match.

9. Where does Hyeonseo decide to go once she has reached Mr. Ahn's house across the river in China?
(a) To visit her family in Shenyang.
(b) To a neighborhood bar.
(c) Back across the river to Hyesan.
(d) To the local teahouse.

10. What percent chance does Ok-hee say she believes she and Hyeonseo have of succeeding in their plans to move to a different country?
(a) 80%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 90%.

11. When the receptionist at the restaurant calls Hyeonseo to tell her there are two men waiting for her there, who are the two men?
(a) Her brother and uncle.
(b) Her two cousins.
(c) Policemen.
(d) The two South Korean filmmakers.

12. In what area of the men's salon is Hyeonseo put to work massaging a man?
(a) The attic.
(b) The front room.
(c) The basement.
(d) The back room.

13. When Hyeonseo's mother is ordered to appear at the Bowibu headquarters in Hyesan, what does she do?
(a) She makes a plan to flee to Laos.
(b) She goes to stay with Aunt Pretty in Hamhung.
(c) She goes to the Bowibu headquarters in Hyesan.
(d) She takes Min-ho to South Korea.

14. With what implements do the North Korean police beat Min-ho during his interrogation?
(a) Nightsticks.
(b) Truncheons.
(c) Brass knuckles.
(d) Blackjacks.

15. Who finds a broker to help Hyeonseo and Ok-hee enact their plan to move to a different country?
(a) Geun-soo.
(b) Min-ho.
(c) Hyeonseo.
(d) Ok-hee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Hyeonseo mentally thank for making her learn how to master Chinese characters?

2. When Hyeonseo's mother tells her not to come back to Hyesan because the family is under suspicion due to Hyeonseo's absence, what does she tell Hyeonseo she plans to do?

3. What bad news does Mrs. Ahn deliver to Hyeonseo when Hyeonseo visits Changbai in October of 2004?

4. When Hyeonseo asks the North Korean waitress where her plastic surgery had performed, what is the waitress's reply?

5. What result of a medical check-up convinces Hyeonseo that she is about to die?

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