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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. When Hyeonseo heard the news that some local young women had been caught listening to South Korean pop music, what was their allocated punishment?
2. What percentage of North Korea's population consistently falls within the Hostile category of the songbun caste system?
3. How many broad categories exist within the caste system of songbun?
4. Hyeonseo remarks that the family's home by the river in Hyesan was perfect for what?
5. What was the true cause of Hyeonseo's father's death?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two types of prison in the gulag?
2. 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?
3. What event causes Hyeonseo to change her behavior of listening to South Korean pop with her friends?
4. What does the family's color television symbolize within the narrative?
5. What does the author claim is ironic about North Korea's beginnings as a communist state?
6. What reason does the author provide for her claim that her family's new home in Hyesan was perfect for her "mother's illicit enterprises" (57)?
7. What major world event does Hyeonseo say she and other North Koreans were completely ignorant of in the 1990s?
8. What do the hills surrounding the city of Anju symbolize within the text?
9. What beliefs about American people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?
10. How does Hyeonseo feel about her forced participation in the Socialist Youth League?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Oftentimes in Western culture, volunteerism is looked at in terms of only helping those in need, but the memoir seems to put forth the proposition that service to others can also be a means to the provider's own personal happiness. Find examples within the memoir that would prove this conclusion regarding the author's message about service to others and discuss the message's overall effect on the reader.
Essay Topic 2
The epilogue of the memoir provides the reader with Hyeonseo's final thoughts about how her North Korean upbringing and her subsequent life events have shaped her as a person. Discuss the author's choice to include this epilogue and its intended effect on the reader within the context of the whole memoir.
Essay Topic 3
How does the theme of compassion arising out of understanding emerge throughout the course of the narrative?
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