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

2. What color is the insignia of the Minister of Mass Mobilization and his cadres?

3. In Chapter 19, what does the narrator say the dogs at the Central Zoo live on?

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

5. Who is Commander Ga's best friend?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 15, how is Wonsan described?

10. In Chapter 17, why are the narrator's neighbors taken away early one morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What information did Comrade Buc reveal that made the interrogators begin to think about the future and what it might hold for them? Why did what he said relate to their future?

Essay Topic 2

Why did no one, not even Kim Jong Il, question or make it publicly known that Commander Ga had died and an imposter took his place?

Essay Topic 3

How did the author use imagery to help the reader understand the experiences of the characters and setting of the story?

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