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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times does the narrator let the phone ring before hanging up when calling Inseon?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

2. What temperature does Inseon note is a tipping point?
(a) 45°C.
(b) 30°C.
(c) 35°C.
(d) 40°C.

3. In what year of high school did Inseon run away from home?
(a) First.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

4. With which of the following does Part I: Bird end?
(a) “To lie alongside these felled logs, these heaped fragments of a giant’s shattered body.”
(b) “And that was the end of that.”
(c) “Like she couldn’t stand another human body touching hers, not for a second.”
(d) “Like the wingbeat of an immeasurably small bird.”

5. How many beds are in Inseon’s hospital room?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

6. What kind of tree does the narrator note stands at the bus stop nearest Inseon’s home?
(a) Sugarberry.
(b) Tupelo.
(c) Basswood.
(d) Hackberry.

7. With which of the following did Inseon make tea for the narrator?
(a) Mulberries.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Boysenberries.
(d) Gooseberries.

8. At what interval do Inseon’s fingers have to be pricked?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 3 minutes.

9. Which of the following does Inseon serve to the narrator?
(a) Kimchi.
(b) Tteokbokki.
(c) Kimbab.
(d) Bulgogi.

10. In what season does the narrator take an apartment?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

11. The novel implies that “gasinae” means which of the following?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Son.

12. Which of the following had the narrator noted as reflecting sunlight?
(a) Camellia.
(b) Paperbark.
(c) Bay laurel.
(d) Yaupon holly.

13. As which of the following had Inseon said to address elderly women in Jeju?
(a) Safta.
(b) Samchun.
(c) Grandmère.
(d) Obaasan.

14. On which of the following does Inseon note thirty thousand were killed?
(a) Taiwan.
(b) Okinawa.
(c) Jindo.
(d) Ulleungdo.

15. What level of schooling had the narrator’s daughter started?
(a) Elementary.
(b) Middle.
(c) College.
(d) High.

Short Answer Questions

1. The novel glosses “juk” as which of the following?

2. For how many years had Inseon and the narrator worked together?

3. Which of the following did the narrator cook for her family?

4. How many years before the novel begins does the narrator start having dreams of massacre?

5. In what month is the narrator’s book released?

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