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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 level of the caste system is made up of 10-15% of the North Korean population?
2. What example is given of a person who would inhabit the lowest level of songbun?
3. With whom did Hyeonseo and Min-ho stay while their mother tended to their father in the Hyesan hospital?
4. What was NOT a characteristic of the special class Hyeonseo began taking when she was 15?
5. On what type of transport is Hyeonseo's mother traveling when she meets Hyeonseo's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What beliefs about Chinese people does Hyeonseo say are taught to every North Korean child?
3. What quality of her mother's personality does Hyeonseo state is an unusual trait for a woman of high songbun?
4. What major rite of passage within North Korea's culture does Hyeonseo undergo when she is 14 years old?
5. What is ironic about the North Korean government's use of the term "people's trial" (27)?
6. What event causes Hyeonseo to change her behavior of listening to South Korean pop with her friends?
7. What does the author claim is ironic about North Korea's beginnings as a communist state?
8. What is shown about Hyeonseo's maternal grandmother's character within the description of her reaction to Hyeonseo's mother's divorce and child borne of the marriage?
9. 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)?
10. What major world event does Hyeonseo say she and other North Koreans were completely ignorant of in the 1990s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many instances of irony are included in the memoir's narrative, including the scene in which Hyeonseo's boyfriend reveals to her that he is exhausted due to rounding up so many North Koreans in one day. Find three other instances of irony within the memoir and discuss each instance's significance.
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
Discuss the significance of the memoir's title and of the repeated references to it throughout the memoir. What is the author's purpose in including the theme of many identities, both in the title and throughout the narrative of the memoir?
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