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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Japanese leave, what job does Sookan's father have?
(a) He is a farmer.
(b) He is a Communist Party leader.
(c) He is a butcher.
(d) He transports goods between the North and South.

2. In the Worker's Paradise, what must each person do every night?
(a) Salute the Korean flag.
(b) Praise American liberators.
(c) Attend town meetings.
(d) Sweep their porch.

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

4. Who tells Sookan and Inchun to take a train back home?
(a) The Guide.
(b) The inn keeper.
(c) Mother.
(d) Kisa.

5. What does Sookan's family plan to do when her father and brothers return home?
(a) Start a new sock factory.
(b) Flee to the south.
(c) Plant a vegetable garden.
(d) Become communists.

6. What do the interrogation soldiers tell Sookan and Inchun to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Stay at the guardhouse and wait for Mother.
(c) Flee to Manchuria.
(d) Flee to Seoul.

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

8. Using his job as a cover, what does Sookan's father do?
(a) Helps people escape to the South.
(b) Poisons Communist food.
(c) Recruits new Communists.
(d) Grows extra beans.

9. Whose family actually owns the home that Captain Narita had been living in?
(a) Kisa's family.
(b) Sookan's family.
(c) Unhi's family.
(d) Haiwon's family.

10. After reaching the South, how do Inchun and Sookan get to Seoul?
(a) By train.
(b) They walk.
(c) By bus.
(d) They fly in a helicopter.

11. After Kisa's trip to retrieve medicine, what do Sookan and Inchun do?
(a) Plant flowers.
(b) Pray for Theresa's recovery.
(c) Get jobs.
(d) Collect rocks.

12. At Little Proletariat School, what are the children encouraged to do?
(a) Talk about their personal goals.
(b) Learn about other cultures.
(c) Learn Spanish.
(d) Talk about their families.

13. How is Kisa related to Sookan's family?
(a) He is Aunt Tiger's husband.
(b) He is Father's nephew.
(c) He is Mother's brother.
(d) He is not related.

14. Who stays behind when the family flees to the South?
(a) Sookan.
(b) No one.
(c) Kisa and Aunt Tiger.
(d) Inchun.

15. In the Worker's Paradise, what happens to traitors?
(a) They are deported.
(b) They are re-conditioned.
(c) They are killed.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Little Proletariat School, what are the children given as an incentive to talk about their families?

2. Why can't Sookan and Inchun stay at the inn?

3. What animals do Sookan and Inchun see at the guardhouse while searching for Mother?

4. After the Japanese leave, who invades Korea?

5. Who is the teacher of the Little Proletariat school?

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