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

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

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

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

5. Who is the nice soldier at the guardhouse?
(a) Lebowski.
(b) Dobraski.
(c) Leonard.
(d) Martin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dies after returning from a labor camp?

3. While trying to flee to the South, where are Mother and the children separated?

4. What does Sookan's family plan to do when her father and brothers return home?

5. Unhi's family is ___.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in 1950?

2. Describe Mrs. Kim.

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

4. Who helps Sookan and Inchun when they get across the border? How?

5. What does Aunt Tiger do to ease suspicions about the family's true opinion about Communism? How well does it work out?

6. What is a "Worker's Paradise"?

7. How are Inchun and Sookan interrogated by the Russians?

8. After the Japanese evacuate, what happens to Unhi's brothers?

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

10. How does the old man at the train station help Sookan and Inchun?

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