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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. How is the guide who is to take the family south dressed?

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

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

4. While searching for Mother, why does Sookan try to stay awake at night?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the town meetings.

6. What happened in 1950?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Sookan and Inchun's journey from Pyongyang to Seoul and the dangers therein.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain Sookan's family members and their roles in "Year of Impossible Goodbyes."

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