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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. What kind of floor does Inseon’s home have?

2. What sea creature does the narrator recall seeing on a documentary?

3. What color of apron does Inseon wear?

4. The novel implies the term “dosirak” means which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How had Inseon’s father dealt with the tremoring in his hands?

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

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

4. To what does the narrator credit Inseon’s departure from filmmaking?

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

6. Why does the narrator posit Inseon titles her project as she does?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kang’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the third most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

The novel focuses much attention on the interring of Ama. What is achieved by that focus? How is it achieved?

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