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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bo Song's handicap?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Club foot.
(d) No fingers.

2. How many stamps a day do military comfort girls receive for their quota books?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

3. In Part I, Chapter 3, what does the Captain bring Jun Do to eat?
(a) Banana.
(b) Soup.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Bread.

4. What is the name of the girl that drowns after Gil throws her over the railing in Chapter 1?
(a) Aika.
(b) Rika.
(c) Mayumi.
(d) Kiku.

5. What was the professor accused of doing in Part II, Chapter 1?
(a) Playing South Korean pop songs.
(b) Teaching about democracy.
(c) Criticizing Kim Jong-Il.
(d) An affair with a student.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Jun Do and Mongnan escape from the prison camp, how many fish do they milk for eggs?

2. In Part 1, Chapter 3, what does Jun Do dream?

3. In Part I, Chapter 3, who does Jun Do remember helping up the stairs of the community housing block?

4. What do Mongnan and Jun Do pick to eat as they leave the prison camp?

5. In Part II, Chapter 1, what is a woman grilling on the sidewalk when the narrator gets off the subway?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Second Mate's wife avoid being taken to Pyongyang when she was young?

2. What is Jun Do's assignment after the kidnappings end?

3. What are some of the things Jun Do listens to after filling out his daily requisition of military soundings?

4. Who are the Pubyok?

5. What is Comrade Buc's job?

6. What does Mognan help Jun Do find to eat as they leave the prison?

7. What happened when the Captain of the Junma was captured by the Russians?

8. What are some of the things the crew of the Junma catch?

9. What was Prison 9 and what happened to it?

10. Who was Duc Dan and where did Jun Do meet him?

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