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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 do the army officers tell Hyeonseo's mother and brother that they must do in order to be released from custody?
2. After their first phone conversation after many years of separation, how often do Hyeonseo and her mother speak on the phone?
3. When Hyeonseo is at her lowest point, she decides to blow all of her savings on what item?
4. Who stands up for Hyeonseo when the customer yells that Hyeonseo has misunderstood his request because she is North Korean?
5. In what city does Mr. Ahn live?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the considerations that cause Hyeonseo to waffle in her decision about whether or not to go to South Korea?
2. 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)?
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 compare and contrast the two countries of North Korea and China through description of each country's restaurants?
8. When Hyeonseo goes to Xita to find a job, what is the outcome?
9. How does Hyeonseo describe Ok-hee and what does Hyeonseo find out the two women have in common?
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
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
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 3
Discuss the author's decision to include a variety of photographs within the text. What purpose did she have when choosing and including these images? Back up your strong, specific claim about the author's use of photographs with concrete details from the images she includes in the book.
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