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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What percentage of North Korea's population consistently falls within the Hostile category of the songbun caste system?
2. What is the rough translation of the North Korean ideological term juche?
3. What simile does Hyeonseo use to describe the fireball emanating from her childhood home?
4. At what age are North Koreans forced to join the Socialist Youth League?
5. A bystander tells Hyeonseo's mother that the near-death experience is a good omen, for someone who survives a disaster at such a young age is sure to what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the themes of money and freedom linked within the scene in which Hyeonseo's mother is caught on the street wearing trousers?
2. What beliefs about Chinese people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?
3. How does Hyeonseo interpret the fortune-teller's announcement that Hyeonseo will have "a future connected with music" and will "eat foreign rice" (43)?
4. 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?
5. What does the author say is the reason that "kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea" (38)?
6. Where is Hyeonseo's family's new house in Hyesan located after they move back from Anju?
7. 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?
8. What major world event does Hyeonseo say she and other North Koreans were completely ignorant of in the 1990s?
9. What beliefs about American people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?
10. What event causes Hyeonseo to change her behavior of listening to South Korean pop with her friends?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the literary device of foreshadowing used to highlight coming events within the story of The Girl with Seven Names? Provide an ample number of quotes from the memoir in order to prove your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Despite the dire situations discussed within the narrative of The Girl with Seven Names, the theme of hope emerges again and again. Find instances of this theme's appearance throughout the memoir and explain how each instance is used by the author in order to demonstrate the value of hope when navigating through struggle.
Essay Topic 3
After her forced separation from her family, Hyeonseo builds many relationships with others that resemble family relationships. Choose three people with whom Hyeonseo builds these familial relationships, describe the circumstances surrounding the bonds she forms with each person, and discuss how these relationships fuel the author's message about the definition of family.
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