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

3. What caliber is the pistol the Dear Leader shows Commander Ga in Part II, Chapter 8?

4. Why are the flowers stolen from the Revolutionary Martytrs' Cemetery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where has Sun Moons seen the gun that Kim Jong Il gives Commander Ga?

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

3. What did Commander Ga want the prisoners in Camp 33 to look for in the mines and why?

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

5. In Chapter 16, how does Ga describe the stonings he participated in?

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

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

8. How did Comrade Buc get his scar?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the depiction of the narrator reveal about the role of propaganda and coercion in North Korea?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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