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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. Who tells Sookan and Inchun about the police who monitor the train station?
(a) No one.
(b) An old man.
(c) Theresa.
(d) The mother from the market.

2. After reaching the South, how do Inchun and Sookan get to Seoul?
(a) They fly in a helicopter.
(b) By bus.
(c) By train.
(d) They walk.

3. Who is the first person in the story to embrace Communism?
(a) Inchun.
(b) Theresa.
(c) Mrs. Kim.
(d) Sookan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sookan and Inchun do after they have crossed the barbed wire fence into the South?

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

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

4. What animals do Sookan and Inchun see at the guardhouse while searching for Mother?

5. When Inchun and Sookan reach Seoul, what are their brothers doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the old man in the train station approach Sookan and Inchun?

2. How do Aunt Tiger and Mother feel about Communism and why?

3. What does the family do when they find out that the war is over?

4. What is significant about Unhi's family and house?

5. After losing Mother at the guard station, how do the children look?

6. Describe the town meetings.

7. At the end of the book, what has happened to Kisa and Aunt Tiger?

8. What does the guide tell the children to do if their mother is captured? What do they actually do?

9. What do you think is the real reason the guide wanted Mother to separate from Sookan and Inchun?

10. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

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