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

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

3. After reaching the South, who helped Sookan and Inchun locate Father's address?
(a) Mother.
(b) Russian soldiers.
(c) The Red Cross information center.
(d) The Yellow Pages representative.

4. If caught trying to flee to the South, what are the children to say they are doing?
(a) Fleeing to the South.
(b) They are lost.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Going to see their dying grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Korea is invaded again, where are most young men sent?

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

3. At Little Proletariat School, what are the children encouraged to do?

4. Who tells Sookan and Inchun about the police who monitor the train station?

5. After reaching the South, who immediately helps Sookan and Inchun?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why don't most of the Korean people know when the war is over?

4. After losing Mother at the guard station, who do Sookan and Inchun help in the market?

5. How does Mother eventually make it to the South?

6. Describe the guide who is to lead the family to the South.

7. Describe Mrs. Kim.

8. Do you think that Korea is better off with the Russians than the Japanese?

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

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

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