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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 does Sookan's family give their guide as payment for taking them South?

2. Who drives Sookan and Inchun from the guardhouse to the train staion?

3. Mother is waiting for the return of ___ from a labor camp.

4. Who do the Koreans hope will rescue them from foreign invaders?

5. Where do Sookan and Inchun bravely go to look for their mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

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

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

10. What happened in 1950?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore and discuss the writing style used in "Year of Impossible Goodbyes."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of freedom within the text.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the antagonists of the story, perhaps mentioning:

1) Captain Narita

2) Narita Sensei

3) Comrade Kim

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