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

3. What animals do Sookan and Inchun see at the guardhouse while searching for Mother?

4. As Sookan and Inchun are almost to the South, what do they hear behind them?

5. After the Japanese leave, what flies next to the Korean flag?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Mrs. Kim.

6. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the antagonists of the story, perhaps mentioning:

1) Captain Narita

2) Narita Sensei

3) Comrade Kim

Essay Topic 2

Explore and discuss the various forms of enslavement within the text, perhaps mentioning:

A) Spirit Girls

B) Labor camps

C) Child labor

Essay Topic 3

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

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