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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Kisa learn on his trip to get medicine?

2. Where do Sookan and Inchun sleep while looking for their mother?

3. If caught trying to flee to the South, what are the children to say they are doing?

4. What does the nice Russian soldier give Sookan and Inchun?

5. Where does Kisa go to get medicine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

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

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

8. After the Japanese have left and the Russians invade, why doesn't America come to help the Koreans in the North?

9. What happened in 1950?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore and discuss the theme of youth and its loss within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sookan's education within the novel, mentioning:

1) Japanese school

2) Little Proletariat School

3) Grandfather's home lessons

4) Sookan's school in Seoul.

Essay Topic 3

Explore and discuss the complex human relationships as they appear in "Year of Impossible Goodbyes."

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