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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. Hyeonseo says that after years in the Chinese workforce, she develops "an emotional attachment" (166) to what?

2. When Hyeonseo asks the North Korean waitress where her plastic surgery had performed, what is the waitress's reply?

3. With what implements do the North Korean police beat Min-ho during his interrogation?

4. Why does Hyeonseo refuse Kim's request to have dinner with her, though she feels strongly attracted to him?

5. What does Hyeonseo eventually find out had happened to the money she had given to her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what location does the title of Part Two refer?

2. What plan does Hyeonseo invent in order to reach South Korea?

3. What secret does Hyeonseo keep from Geun-soo, though she does tell him that she is North Korean?

4. How does Hyeonseo feel every time she walks into the Shanghai restaurant called Pyongyang Okryugwan and why?

5. How is the theme of deception as a means of survival portrayed within Hyeonseo's escape from her job at the men's salon?

6. How does Hyeonseo compare and contrast the two countries of North Korea and China through description of each country's restaurants?

7. What are the considerations that cause Hyeonseo to waffle in her decision about whether or not to go to South Korea?

8. What major piece of information does Hyeonseo find out from her regular waitress at Pyongyang Okryugwan and how does the information demonstrate the theme of social stratification?

9. To whom does Hyeonseo's new identification card, the one stating that her name is Park Sun-ja, belong?

10. What reasons does Hyeonseo provide for her tendency to forget she is North Korean once she has been in Shanghai for a full year?

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

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.

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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