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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 13, how many days does the narrator spend working on the Grass into Meat campaign at his apartment building?

2. What script does Kim Jong Il send in Chapter 14 to Sun Moon?

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

4. What does the narrator go to the illegal night market to purchase?

5. Where does Commander Ga find the laptop in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 15, how is Wonsan described?

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

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

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

9. Why does the Dear Leader say he will probably never see the Texas Commander Ga set up?

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 were the reasons why Commander Ga and other officials wanted the white rock from Prison 33? What power did this represent?

Essay Topic 2

Why did some characters have freedom, even though they were physically imprisoned, and why were some characters imprisoned even though physically they were not bound to one place?

Essay Topic 3

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

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