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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. In Chapter 19, how long is the bus for the Kwangbok express bus?

2. What does the kid at the night market want in payment for a phone charger?

3. How often were peasants bussed in to visit the capital?

4. Where were the peaches canned that the narrator found in the central property locker?

5. In Chapter 20, what are young people lying in the grass reading?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was Mongnan's role when Jun Do killed Commander Ga?

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

10. In Chapter 15, how is Wonsan described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Why does the Dear Leader want to cling to the idea that a syndrome is at work in the relationship between himself and the rower girl?

Essay Topic 3

Why were Dr. Song and Comrade Buc highly motivated to succeed at the mission to Texas?

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