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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 percent chance does Ok-hee say she believes she and Hyeonseo have of succeeding in their plans to move to a different country?
2. What job does Hyeonseo perform within her role at the cosmetics company in the Mihang district?
3. What does the word omma mean in Korean?
4. How does Hyeonseo find out that she will not be allowed to leave the salon even if she decides not to take the job?
5. Hyeonseo says that after years in the Chinese workforce, she develops "an emotional attachment" (166) to what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hyeonseo describe Ok-hee and what does Hyeonseo find out the two women have in common?
2. What job does Hyeonseo get after receiving her new piece of Chinese identification and how does the situation demonstrate the power inherent in proven legitimacy?
3. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?
4. What emotion does Hyeonseo say she feels after her mother tells her over the phone that she should not return to North Korea?
5. How does Hyeonseo characterize Min-ho's view of money and how his views represent those of all North Koreans?
6. What does Hyeonseo long for just before she again meets her previous acquaintance Ok-hee?
7. What secret does Hyeonseo keep from Geun-soo, though she does tell him that she is North Korean?
8. What plan does Hyeonseo invent in order to reach South Korea?
9. To what location does the title of Part Two refer?
10. When Hyeonseo goes to Xita to find a job, what is the outcome?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the structure the author uses to construct the memoir and discuss what her purpose is for breaking the narrative into three parts as she does. What advantages does this choice give her and how does it align with the messages she is trying to get across to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How does the theme of compassion arising out of understanding emerge throughout the course of the 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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