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

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

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

4. After Hyeonseo talks her way out of the men's salon, in what type of vehicle does she escape?
(a) A bus.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A tuk-tuk.
(d) A taxi.

5. Who does Uncle Jong-gil say drove Kim Il-sung to a heart attack?
(a) Hostile citizens.
(b) Kim Jong-un.
(c) Kim Jong-il.
(d) The American government.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hyeonseo says that after years in the Chinese workforce, she develops "an emotional attachment" (166) to what?

3. How does Hyeonseo escape the painful and confusing truth her Uncle Jung-gil shares with her about North Korea?

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hyeonseo describe as "the cloud" (160) in her sky once she gets settled in her new job in Xita, gets her driving license, lives in her own apartment, and feels more confident in general?

2. How does Hyeonseo characterize Min-ho's view of money and how his views represent those of all North Koreans?

3. To whom does Hyeonseo's new identification card, the one stating that her name is Park Sun-ja, belong?

4. To what location does the title of Part Two refer?

5. How does Hyeonseo describe Ok-hee and what does Hyeonseo find out the two women have in common?

6. When Hyeonseo speaks to her mother on the phone for the first time in years, what is Hyeonseo's reaction?

7. What job does Hyeonseo get after receiving her new piece of Chinese identification and how does the situation demonstrate the power inherent in proven legitimacy?

8. How does Hyeonseo compare and contrast the two countries of North Korea and China through description of each country's restaurants?

9. What reasons does Hyeonseo provide for her tendency to forget she is North Korean once she has been in Shanghai for a full year?

10. What secret does Hyeonseo keep from Geun-soo, though she does tell him that she is North Korean?

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