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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. When Hyeonseo asks the North Korean waitress where her plastic surgery had performed, what is the waitress's reply?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Laos.
(c) Pyongyang.
(d) South Korea.

2. How many North Korea-operated restaurants exist in Shanghai, according to Hyeonseo's account?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Three.

3. Who stands up for Hyeonseo when the customer yells that Hyeonseo has misunderstood his request because she is North Korean?
(a) Min-ho.
(b) Kim.
(c) Hyeonseo's mother.
(d) The restaurant manager.

4. In what year does Hyeonseo see a news story on television about North Koreans seeking political asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2000.

5. When someone calls Hyeonseo claiming to be a friend of her mother's and asks her how much money she had sent to her mother, what is Hyeonseo's reply?
(a) 10,000 yuan.
(b) 30,000 yuan and 500 American dollars.
(c) She had not sent any money.
(d) She does not remember.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hyeonseo and the other workers enter their workplace, they pass through "a special machine" (160) that does what?

2. What type of food is the nooroongji that Mr. Ahn cooks for all of his North Korean visitors?

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

4. Hyeonseo states that every election in North Korea always "returned Kim Jong-il with" what "percentage approval" (111)?

5. What do the army officers tell Hyeonseo's mother and brother that they must do in order to be released from custody?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Hyeonseo acquire her new identification card while living in China?

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

5. How is the theme of deception as a means of survival portrayed within Hyeonseo's escape from her job at the men's salon?

6. What does Hyeonseo long for just before she again meets her previous acquaintance Ok-hee?

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

8. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?

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

10. What causes Hyeonseo to make the decision not to marry Geun-soo?

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