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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. While escaping to the South, how do Sookan and Inchun cross the river?
(a) They swim.
(b) They take a raft.
(c) The walk over a fallen tree trunk.
(d) They climb the train trestle.

10. While at the guardhouse, Sookan and Inchun are interrogated ___.
(a) Together.
(b) Separately.
(c) While blindfolded.
(d) Using torture.

11. What year did war break out again in Korea?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1950.

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

13. Who takes pity on Sookan and Inchun and tells them to meet him at the train station later that night?
(a) The young mother from the market.
(b) Dobraski.
(c) An old man with a broom.
(d) Theresa.

14. While searching for their mother, why do Inchun and Sookan look diseased?
(a) They are covered with mosquito bites.
(b) They have swollen eyes and cough a lot.
(c) They are wearing hospital gowns.
(d) They are skinny and smell bad.

15. While escaping to the South, why does Sooken take off her shoes?
(a) She trades them for train tickets.
(b) She likes the way the mud squishes between her toes.
(c) To make less noise while she runs.
(d) She is stuck in quicksand and must escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of "Town Reds," what does Aunt Tiger call the family?

2. What is found in the house where Captain Narita lived?

3. Who drives Sookan and Inchun from the guardhouse to the train staion?

4. Where does Kisa go to get medicine?

5. Who dies after returning from a labor camp?

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