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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. How does Hyeonseo's mother escape the grasp of the Bowibu who have denounced her?
2. What amount of money does the Bowibu tell Hyeonseo's mother can be paid so that Hyeonseo can come home and will not be charged with a crime?
3. With what object does a mysterious figure hit Hyeonseo over the head when she arrives home from work?
4. What item is NOT enclosed in the package Hyeonseo sends home to Hyesan?
5. What bad news does Mrs. Ahn deliver to Hyeonseo when Hyeonseo visits Changbai in October of 2004?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Hyeonseo speaks to her mother on the phone for the first time in years, what is Hyeonseo's reaction?
2. What reasons does Hyeonseo provide for her tendency to forget she is North Korean once she has been in Shanghai for a full year?
3. How does Hyeonseo escape the clutches of the gang holding her hostage?
4. What secret does Hyeonseo keep from Geun-soo, though she does tell him that she is North Korean?
5. What does Hyeonseo long for just before she again meets her previous acquaintance Ok-hee?
6. 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?
7. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?
8. How does Hyeonseo describe Ok-hee and what does Hyeonseo find out the two women have in common?
9. What plan does Hyeonseo invent in order to reach South Korea?
10. To whom does Hyeonseo's new identification card, the one stating that her name is Park Sun-ja, belong?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 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.
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