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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. Who lives next door to Sun Moon?

2. By Chapter 20, how many times has Commander Ga been to South Korea?

3. Where does Commander Ga meet with the Dear Leader in Part 2, Chapter 8?

4. What illness can be an issue in the sump?

5. Who did Jun Do have to stone when he was a prisoner in the mining camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Sun Moon and Ga go the the Martyrs' Cemetery in Chapter 16?

2. What does Ga fix to eat at the cemetery?

3. How did Buc's wife and daughters die?

4. In Chapter 15, how is Wonsan described?

5. How did Comrade Buc get his scar?

6. What does Comrade Buc say happened to Sun Moon and her children?

7. Why do soldiers come to see Commander Ga in Part II, Chapter 10?

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

9. How did the Propaganda boys write the story of a lady missionary who snuck in from the south with a satchel of Bibles?

10. Why does the narrator have a good night's sleep sleeping out in the open?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is greater than Buc's fear of displeasing the Dear Leader that causes him to volunteer to help Ga with his escape plan?

Essay Topic 2

What factors--natural, political, and economic--lead to the disbanding of the orphanage where Jun Do and the other boys lived?

Essay Topic 3

Why, if Jun Do was a hero, was he beaten so badly that it took him a long while to recover?

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