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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 does seo mean in Korean?
2. What form of currency does Hyeonseo say is required for bribes and for the purchase of black market goods?
3. What organization had Hyeonseo's grandmother joined at the age of 19?
4. Hyeonseo says that her parents' jobs and business dealings meant that her family had enough what?
5. Why does Hyeonseo not start kindergarten in Hyesan as she had thought she would?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Hyeonseo's grandmother tells her the truth about her biological father and stepfather, what is Hyeonseo's response and what does she say that she should have done instead?
2. What are the two types of prison in the gulag?
3. 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?
4. What major world event does Hyeonseo say she and other North Koreans were completely ignorant of in the 1990s?
5. 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)?
6. What beliefs about American people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?
7. What is ironic about the North Korean government's use of the term "people's trial" (27)?
8. What do the hills surrounding the city of Anju symbolize within the text?
9. What quality of her mother's personality does Hyeonseo state is an unusual trait for a woman of high songbun?
10. What does the family's color television symbolize within the narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The memoir does not shy away from including graphic and disturbing details when describing the horrors inflicted on the North Korean people by the ruling regime, such as the scene in which Hyeonseo witnesses a public hanging. Write a persuasive essay in which you argue for or against the use of this book in schools as a means to illuminate the ongoing human rights violations happening in North Korea.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss three different women that appear within the book's narrative and compare and contrast their characteristics. How do their roles differ and how are their roles similar? Taken together, what depiction of women is present in the overall narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of fear within the memoir The Girl with Seven Names. What is the author telling the reader about the nature of fear, about the harm that fear can inflict, and about the methods people can use to combat fear?
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