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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 many North Korea-operated restaurants exist in Shanghai, according to Hyeonseo's account?
2. After Hyeonseo's mother escapes from the Bowibu, how long does she wait before she returns to Hyesan?
3. What does Hyeonseo say becomes a main topic of conversation between herself and Ok-hee once they see the television news story about the North Korean defectors?
4. How old is Hyeonseo by the time she gets her new job at the cosmetics company in the Mihang district?
5. What does Hyeonseo eventually find out had happened to the money she had given to her mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What secret does Hyeonseo keep from Geun-soo, though she does tell him that she is North Korean?
2. What plan does Hyeonseo invent in order to reach South Korea?
3. What causes Hyeonseo to make the decision not to marry Geun-soo?
4. How does Hyeonseo compare and contrast the two countries of North Korea and China through description of each country's restaurants?
5. To whom does Hyeonseo's new identification card, the one stating that her name is Park Sun-ja, belong?
6. What are Geun-soo's mother's views regarding what kind of women Geun-soo should date?
7. When Hyeonseo speaks to her mother on the phone for the first time in years, what is Hyeonseo's reaction?
8. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?
9. What does Hyeonseo mean when she writes, "I should have seen the warning lights when Geun-soo began urging me to improve my Mandarin and correcting me on points of etiquette" (117)?
10. What are the considerations that cause Hyeonseo to waffle in her decision about whether or not to go to South Korea?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The memoir is littered with the use of sensory details to create a vivid picture of the many different places Hyeonseo finds herself once she has crossed the Yalu River into China. Discuss the author's purpose in including the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations of Hyeonseo's experiences.
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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