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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nice Russian soldier give Sookan and Inchun?
(a) Orange juice.
(b) A comic book.
(c) Money.
(d) Bread.

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

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

4. Where do Inchun and Sookan try to spend the night while looking for their mother?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In a corn field.
(c) The empty marketplace.
(d) The train station.

5. Where does Kisa go to get medicine?
(a) Russia.
(b) The Japanese military.
(c) The black market.
(d) The convent.

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

7. What happens when Sookan crawls under the barbed wire fence?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She breaks the fence.
(c) She gets cut.
(d) She dies.

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

9. North Korea became Communist while South Korea became ___.
(a) Capitalist.
(b) A monarchy.
(c) Anarchist.
(d) Socialist.

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

11. After reaching the South, who helped Sookan and Inchun locate Father's address?
(a) Mother.
(b) The Red Cross information center.
(c) The Yellow Pages representative.
(d) Russian soldiers.

12. Where do Sookan and Inchun bravely go to look for their mother?
(a) The guardhouse.
(b) Pyongyang.
(c) Russia.
(d) A brothel.

13. After Kisa returns from fetching medicine, what does the family dig up from under the house?
(a) A dead cat.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Their stockpile of rice.
(d) Brightly colored Korean clothing.

14. What do Sookan and Inchun do after they have crossed the barbed wire fence into the South?
(a) Run.
(b) Sleep in the grass.
(c) Do a happy dance.
(d) Shout taunts at the soldiers following them.

15. At the Little Proletariat School, what are the children given as an incentive to talk about their families?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Awards.
(c) Warm jackets.
(d) Cookies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes arrangements for Sookan's family to flee to the South?

2. Who tells Sookan and Inchun to go to the back of the train and crawl underneath?

3. Who takes pity on Sookan and Inchun and tells them to meet him at the train station later that night?

4. While escaping to the South, why must Sookan and Inchun lie down in a cornfield?

5. While searching for Mother, why does Sookan try to stay awake at night?

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