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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hyeonseo forget to ask when she accepts her first job after leaving the men's salon?
(a) Which days she will have off.
(b) The amount of her salary.
(c) Whether she will need an ID.
(d) What her hours will be.

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?
(a) Fake Hyeonseo's death.
(b) Sell the house and move.
(c) Find a way to get the whole family to South Korea.
(d) Come to China and get her.

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

4. When Min-ho calls Hyeonseo to ask for more money, for what does Hyeonseo assume the last round of money had been used?
(a) Bribes.
(b) Food.
(c) Fines.
(d) Clothing.

5. 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 asks Ok-hee to call Kim for her.
(b) She prays for a second chance.
(c) She calls him and asks him to have coffee with her.
(d) She writes him a letter.

6. What does Hyeonseo eventually find out had happened to the money she had given to her mother?
(a) Her mother had lost the money gambling.
(b) Her mother had helped her brothers and sisters.
(c) Her mother had paid a ransom for Min-ho's safe return.
(d) Her mother had paid for Min-ho to begin college.

7. What item is NOT enclosed in the package Hyeonseo sends home to Hyesan?
(a) A hair dryer.
(b) A letter to her mother.
(c) Vitamins.
(d) Money.

8. How many months after her departure from their home does Hyeonseo wait before contacting her aunt and uncle in Shenyang?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

9. How old is Hyeonseo by the time she gets her new job at the cosmetics company in the Mihang district?
(a) 28.
(b) 25.
(c) 21.
(d) 19.

10. 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.

11. Whom does Hyeonseo mentally thank for making her learn how to master Chinese characters?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her primary school teacher.
(d) Her brother.

12. What is NOT one quality Uncle Jong-gil attributes to Kim Jong-il?
(a) He drinks cognac and eats fine cheeses.
(b) He is a communist.
(c) He lives in palaces.
(d) He lives with brigades of pleasure girls.

13. What does the word omma mean in Korean?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Sister.
(c) Brother.
(d) Mother.

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

15. Hyeonseo's "Uncle" (105) Jung-gil is actually not her biological uncle, but is instead related to her in what way?
(a) He is her second cousin.
(b) He is a friend of the family.
(c) He is her mother's uncle.
(d) He is her father's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hyeonseo decide to go once she has reached Mr. Ahn's house across the river in China?

2. How does Hyeonseo find out that she will not be allowed to leave the salon even if she decides not to take the job?

3. What item does Mr. Ahn buy for Hyeonseo in an attempt to make her "look more Chinese" (102)?

4. What kind of company does Hyeonseo's Uncle Jong-gil run in China?

5. When Hyeonseo's mother calls her a time other than their regular time, what does she tell Hyeonseo she has laid her hands on and is trying to sell?

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