View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While trying to flee to the South, where are Mother and the children separated?
(a) In a mall.
(b) In the train station.
(c) They are not separated.
(d) In a small corn field.

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

4. In the summertime, who gets sick?
(a) Sookan.
(b) Kisa.
(c) Inchun.
(d) Mother.

5. Which word means "of course" in Korean?
(a) Duh.
(b) Moussaka.
(c) Mulnon.
(d) Mulberry.

6. Where is Korea divided in half?
(a) At the thirty-eighth parallel.
(b) Through the middle of Seoul.
(c) Korea is divided in half?
(d) Through the middle of Pyongyang.

7. Who do the Koreans hope will rescue them from foreign invaders?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Swiss.

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

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

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

11. What does the inn keeper give Sookan and Inchun?
(a) A new guide.
(b) Food wrapped in a hankerchief.
(c) An umbrella.
(d) Train tickets.

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

13. What happened to Aunt Tiger's children?
(a) They were sent to America.
(b) She never had any.
(c) They were killed by the Japanese.
(d) They are already in the South.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Worker's Paradise, what happens to traitors?

2. Who dies after returning from a labor camp?

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

4. Using his job as a cover, what does Sookan's father do?

5. What year did war break out again in Korea?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 427 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample