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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After being invaded again, where does Sookan's family hide?
(a) In the house.
(b) At the convent.
(c) In a silo.
(d) In a tree.

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

3. While escaping to the South, what cuts Sookan's feet?
(a) Metal rivets.
(b) Random shards of glass.
(c) Freshly-cut cornstalks.
(d) Rocks.

4. Mother is waiting for the return of ___ from a labor camp.
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her husband and sons.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Her uncle.

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

6. What does Inchun do after Mother is detained at the border?
(a) He cries.
(b) He runs and jumps on her.
(c) Mother is not detained at the border.
(d) He acts as if nothing happened.

7. After reaching the South, who immediately helps Sookan and Inchun?
(a) An friendly farmer.
(b) Mother.
(c) Russian soldiers.
(d) Red Cross workers.

8. After the Japanese leave, what flies next to the Korean flag?
(a) A Red Cross flag.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The Russian flag.
(d) A white flag.

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

10. After the Japanese leave, who supposedly will take care of the Koreans?
(a) Mother Russia.
(b) Big Brother.
(c) Chinese missionaries.
(d) Korea.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Sookan crawls under the barbed wire fence?

2. While searching for their mother, why do Inchun and Sookan look diseased?

3. In the summertime, who gets sick?

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

5. Who stays behind when the family flees to the South?

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