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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. In the Worker's Paradise, what happens to traitors?

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

3. What is the uniform in the Worker's Paradise?

4. When Sookan looks after Inchun, what does he call her?

5. Who takes pity on Sookan and Inchun and tells them to meet him at the train station later that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the Russians invade northern Korea, where is father and what is he doing?

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

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

4. When the family prepares to escape to the South, who stays behind and why?

5. Describe Dobraski.

6. What happened in 1950?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore and discuss the levels of sacrifice exhibited within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explore and discuss examples of social class divisions within the text, being sure to touch upon:

A) Race.

B) Politics.

C) Prominence and wealth.

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