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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Inseon’s mother’s fingers did she use to feed her sister?
(a) Index.
(b) Middle.
(c) Pinkie.
(d) Ring.

2. Which of the following was noted on the feet of massacre victims?
(a) Opanak.
(b) Gomusin.
(c) Geta.
(d) Mojari.

3. At what time does the narrator awaken in Inseon’s house?
(a) 4pm.
(b) 10am.
(c) 4am.
(d) 10pm.

4. Which of the following does Inseon note Ama favors?
(a) Boysenberries.
(b) Mulberries.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Gooseberries.

5. To what year does the first clipping date that Inseon’s mother had collected?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material is the box made in which the narrator buried Ama?

2. What was mined at Gyeongsan?

3. In what month had the narrator and Inseon investigated mountain folklore?

4. What did Inseon’s father take with him into hiding?

5. To what does the narrator compare Inseon’s voice?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Inseon light the stove in her workshop?

2. Why had Inseon’s aunt told her mother that their brother would have survived the massacre?

3. Why does Inseon think her uncle died in a mine?

4. How was Inseon able to tell where homes had stood in the abandoned village she searches?

5. To what does Inseon credit her young aunt’s return home while wounded?

6. What does Inseon’s mother regret having said to her brother, and why?

7. Why had Inseon’s father’s family been killed?

8. How did Inseon’s father evade massacre?

9. What does the novel suggest prompted the narrator to take her own apartment?

10. What does Inseon reveal about her home that makes the narrator uncomfortable?

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