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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. In Chapter 19, what job is the narrator given?
(a) Empty latrine pots.
(b) Plant rice.
(c) Harvest rice.
(d) Carry water.

2. What does the kid at the night market want in payment for a phone charger?
(a) Ration books.
(b) Gold.
(c) Pubyok badge.
(d) Food.

3. What color is the insignia of the Minister of Mass Mobilization and his cadres?
(a) Brown.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

4. In Part II, Chapter 10, how many couples are at the Grand People's Opera House when Commander Ga and Sun Moon arrive?
(a) 100-150.
(b) Over 50.
(c) 20-30.
(d) A few dozen.

5. When did the narrator lift a Pubyok badge?
(a) Kim Jong Il's birthday.
(b) April Fifteenth Celebration.
(c) Two years ago.
(d) Last year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brand of cigarettes is chosen for the gift baskets for the Americans?

2. How many years has the driver who is in a comma driven for Kim Jong Il?

3. How many years did Comrade Buc procure for the prisons?

4. In Chapter 19, why is the subway shut down?

5. What type of car is brought to Commander Ga in Part II, Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the case against the nurse from Panmunjom?

2. What answer does Commander Ga give when Sun Moon asks him why he was in prison?

3. How and when does Sun Moon realize that she will never see her husband again?

4. How does the narrator get caught up in a work detail for the rice harvest?

5. Why will Buc help Commander Ga engineer an escape?

6. How did Comrade Buc get his scar?

7. What martyr's grave does Ga want to see, and how does it make him feel?

8. What does Buc say about the chances of getting out of North Korea?

9. In Chapter 15 what has the Dear Leader done and how will it be celebrated?

10. Why does Comrade Buc say that Commander Ga didn't have anything to do with the missing actress?

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