View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. After Sookan and Inchun reach Seoul, what kind of business does Father start?
(a) A soy sauce factory.
(b) A fortune cookie bakery.
(c) A sock factory.
(d) An accounting firm.

4. What news does Kisa learn on his trip to get medicine?
(a) The war is over.
(b) Theresa is dying.
(c) The Korean president has died.
(d) The rice crops are failing.

5. 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.

6. What does Aunt Tiger give to Mother before the family flees to the South?
(a) Money.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) A fake passport.

7. How is the guide who is to take the family south dressed?
(a) As a Japanese soldier.
(b) As an American soldier.
(c) As a peasant farmer.
(d) As a communist leader.

8. How does Mother finally reach the South?
(a) By crawling through a secret tunnel.
(b) Via train.
(c) By hitching a ride on a convoy.
(d) It doesn't say.

9. As Sookan and Inchun are almost to the South, what do they hear behind them?
(a) Their mother's voice.
(b) Silence.
(c) Soldiers and dogs.
(d) A train in the distance.

10. What animals do Sookan and Inchun see at the guardhouse while searching for Mother?
(a) Kittens.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Iguanas.

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

12. After Korea is invaded again, where are most young men sent?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) Italy.
(d) Siberia.

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

14. How does the young mother at the market pay Sookan and Inchun for their help?
(a) She gives them each a dollar.
(b) She gives them ears of corn.
(c) She takes them home and gives them a bath.
(d) She doesn't pay them.

15. What happens to Hansin's family after he tells his teachers at school that a stranger came to visit one night?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They all disappear.
(c) He is given an award.
(d) He becomes a School Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Japanese leave, what flies next to the Korean flag?

2. In the summertime, who gets sick?

3. Who is the nice soldier at the guardhouse?

4. While being interrogated in the guardhouse, where do the children say they are going?

5. Which word means "of course" in Korean?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 443 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample