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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 the following does the narrator compare to burial mounds?
(a) Fish.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Shipwrecks.
(d) Volcanoes.

2. What was mined at Gyeongsan?
(a) Rhodium.
(b) Nickel.
(c) Cobalt.
(d) Iron.

3. Which of the following does the narrator use to trace Ama’s shadow?
(a) Pen.
(b) Marker.
(c) Pencil.
(d) Ink brush.

4. What did Inseon’s father take with him into hiding?
(a) Cabbages.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Squash.
(d) Radishes.

5. As which of the following was Inseon’s last film incorrectly described?
(a) “An ode in film to a father’s history.”
(b) “An epic of a family tragedy.”
(c) “An upbeat comedy for the whole family.”
(d) “An ode in film to a mother’s history.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does a pharmacist recommend to Inseon?

2. Peels of what are in the pocket of Inseon’s coat?

3. What color turtleneck does Inseon wear?

4. What name was *given to* the youngest sister of Inseon’s father?

5. Where did Inseon live when she reports having begun to feel another presence in her home?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what year does the main narrative of the novel occur, and how can this be ascertained?

2. Why does Inseon insist that her birds eat inside their cage?

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

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

5. How did Inseon’s father evade massacre?

6. What does the narrator know has happened to the leaves of the trees in her nightmares?

7. Why had the narrator been at the National Library?

8. What does the narrator eat as she feeds Ama?

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

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

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