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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. Which word means "of course" in Korean?

2. What do Sookan and Inchun do after they have crossed the barbed wire fence into the South?

3. Why can't Sookan and Inchun stay at the inn?

4. Who joins the Party in hopes of relieving any suspicions about Sookan's family?

5. Who tells Sookan and Inchun to go to the back of the train and crawl underneath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why are the school children encouraged to talk about their home life?

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

5. Describe how Sookan watches out for Inchun overnight in the barn.

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

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

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

9. Describe Dobraski.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether the setting in "Year of Impossible Goodbyes" is pivotal to the story.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the appearances of abuse within the text.

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