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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If caught trying to flee to the South, what are the children to say they are doing?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They are lost.
(c) Fleeing to the South.
(d) Going to see their dying grandmother.

2. When Inchun and Sookan reach Seoul, what are their brothers doing?
(a) Starting a Seoul branch of the Communist Party.
(b) Helping Northerners escape.
(c) Attending universities.
(d) Working as cabis.

3. While planning their escape, what job does the family undertake in their home?
(a) Making shoes.
(b) Growing vegetables.
(c) Making posters and flags.
(d) Composing new Communist songs.

4. Who drives Sookan and Inchun from the guardhouse to the train staion?
(a) The old man with a broom.
(b) The young mother from the market.
(c) Dobraski.
(d) The inn keeper.

5. Who joins the Party in hopes of relieving any suspicions about Sookan's family?
(a) Inchun.
(b) Mother.
(c) Aunt Tiger.
(d) No one.

6. What happened to Aunt Tiger's children?
(a) They are already in the South.
(b) They were killed by the Japanese.
(c) They were sent to America.
(d) She never had any.

7. Why can't Sookan and Inchun stay at the inn?
(a) It is not safe.
(b) They have no money.
(c) It is not clean.
(d) They were not invited.

8. How do Sookan and Inchun help a young mother at the market?
(a) They watch for thieves.
(b) They babysit.
(c) They recruit customers.
(d) They cook for her.

9. At the town meetings, who is depicted in the portraits that are hung on the wall?
(a) Pat Morita and Jackie Chan.
(b) Stalin and Lenin.
(c) Atilla the Hun.
(d) Mozart and Beethoven.

10. While escaping to the South, how do Sookan and Inchun get through the barbed wire fence?
(a) They go around it.
(b) They dig a small space and crawl under.
(c) They climb over.
(d) They use wire cutters.

11. Where is Korea divided in half?
(a) Korea is divided in half?
(b) At the thirty-eighth parallel.
(c) Through the middle of Pyongyang.
(d) Through the middle of Seoul.

12. At the town meeting, what color is the scarf everyone is given to wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Purple.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

13. Who makes arrangements for Sookan's family to flee to the South?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Inchun.
(c) Haiwon.
(d) Kisa.

14. Instead of "Town Reds," what does Aunt Tiger call the family?
(a) Town Black Sheep.
(b) Phony Reds or Pinks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Country Reds.

15. Due to Kisa's heavy involvement with the Party, what does Sookan's family receive first?
(a) Gold.
(b) New scarves.
(c) Coal.
(d) Cabbage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the uniform in the Worker's Paradise?

2. What news does Kisa learn on his trip to get medicine?

3. Where do Sookan and Inchun sleep while looking for their mother?

4. What does Aunt Tiger give to Mother before the family flees to the South?

5. After reaching the South, who immediately helps Sookan and Inchun?

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