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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the factory is shut down, what is the family ordered to do?
(a) Start a new factory.
(b) Send Sookan to school.
(c) Begin farming.
(d) Sell their house.

2. Who watches Grandfather meditate?
(a) Sookan.
(b) Inchun.
(c) Theresa.
(d) Aunt Tiger.

3. Who is Narita Sensei?
(a) A local gardener.
(b) A Japanese nun.
(c) Sookan's schoolteacher.
(d) Sookan's aunt.

4. What do Sookan and Inchun water after the birthday feast debacle?
(a) The rock garden.
(b) The shrubs.
(c) The pine tree roots.
(d) The flowers.

5. Who wrote "Year of Impossible Goodbyes"?
(a) Banana Yoshimoto.
(b) Sook Nyul Choi.
(c) Yu Hua.
(d) Amy Tan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sookan goes to school, what does she not know how to do?

2. What does Mother trade for food?

3. What did Grandfather used to have?

4. When Sookan goes to school, what can she not do?

5. At school, who is nice to Sookan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the first person to ever beat Sookan and why?

2. What did Grandfather used to wear, and why did he have to get rid of it?

3. How does Mother obtain gifts and food for Haiwon's party?

4. Why don't the Sock Girls run away when Mother tells them to?

5. Why is Mother's hairpin significant?

6. Describe how Unhi helps Sookan at school.

7. What happens when Captain Narita finds the family having a birthday party?

8. What does Captain Narita do to punish the family for having a party?

9. How does Sookan try to cheer up Inchun after the pine tree is cut down?

10. What do the factory workers try to do to prevent being taken away to become Spirit Girls?

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