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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the sentence given to the family deported for the father's mistake of rolling a cigarette using a piece of newspaper and failing to notice a picture of the Great Leader on the other side of the scrap?
(a) They are sent to a potato digging work farm.
(b) The family is sent to a Chinese prison.
(c) The adults are executed and the children are sent to the gulag.
(d) The family's home is searched daily for a span of five years.

2. Hyeonseo says that she has learned that people can do without almost anything, but they cannot do without what?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Friends.
(c) Food.
(d) Family.

3. Who are the bowibu?
(a) Secret police in North Korea.
(b) Secret police in Laos.
(c) Secret police in South Korea.
(d) Secret police in North Korea.

4. What unconventional and technically illegal hairstyle did Hyeonseo wear while attending school in Hyesan?
(a) A perm.
(b) A fringe.
(c) A bob.
(d) A mohawk.

5. At what age does Hyeonseo first visit South Korea?
(a) 20.
(b) 32.
(c) 14.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location in Hyesan did Hyeonseo name as a "common site for public executions" (73)?

2. What quality of Hyesan does Hyeonseo say leads to its status as a moneymaking town?

3. What does hyeon mean in Korean?

4. Hyeonseo says that her parents' jobs and business dealings meant that her family had enough what?

5. For what reason is Uncle Opium protected from investigation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What beliefs about American people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?

2. How does Hyeonseo interpret the fortune-teller's announcement that Hyeonseo will have "a future connected with music" and will "eat foreign rice" (43)?

3. How is Hyeonseo's mother's devotion to Hyeonseo's father demonstrated in the scene when Hyeonseo's father does not return on time from his business trip to China?

4. What are the two types of prison in the gulag?

5. How is the theme of language as a tool of manipulation present within the North Korean campaign of 1992?

6. How is the theme of appearance versus reality demonstrated within the description of Hyeonseo's mother's behavior once her husband has been detained for ten days?

7. What does the family's color television symbolize within the narrative?

8. What event causes Hyeonseo to change her behavior of listening to South Korean pop with her friends?

9. What major rite of passage within North Korea's culture does Hyeonseo undergo when she is 14 years old?

10. What major world event does Hyeonseo say she and other North Koreans were completely ignorant of in the 1990s?

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