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

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

3. What do the army officers tell Hyeonseo's mother and brother that they must do in order to be released from custody?
(a) Pay a large fine.
(b) Say nothing.
(c) Denounce five traitors to the state.
(d) Help them catch Hyeonseo.

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

5. With what object does a mysterious figure hit Hyeonseo over the head when she arrives home from work?
(a) A vase.
(b) A beer bottle.
(c) A block of wood.
(d) A tire iron.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Hyeonseo leaves her waitressing job, what position does she take instead?

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

4. In what area of the men's salon is Hyeonseo put to work massaging a man?

5. In what year does Hyeonseo see a news story on television about North Koreans seeking political asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Geun-soo's mother's views regarding what kind of women Geun-soo should date?

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

3. What are the considerations that cause Hyeonseo to waffle in her decision about whether or not to go to South Korea?

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

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

6. When Hyeonseo goes to Xita to find a job, what is the outcome?

7. 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?

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

9. What is symbolized by Hyeonseo's "fashionable new shoes" (101) that she wears on her journey into China?

10. What does Hyeonseo mean when she writes, "I should have seen the warning lights when Geun-soo began urging me to improve my Mandarin and correcting me on points of etiquette" (117)?

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