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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. Where does Apa clean for his second job?

2. How much older is Young Ju's friend Ju Mi than Young Ju who likes to boss Young Ju around?

3. In "Not Forever," what color is the house where Apa rents the bottom floor?

4. In "A Step from Heaven," what does Gomo give Young Ju to drink?

5. Who tells Young Ju that Mi Gook is not heaven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What packages do Young Ju and her family get and from where?

2. What is it like for Young Ju to wade in the ocean?

3. What is the house like that Apa rents for the family?

4. How is Uhmma dressed when she takes Young Ju to get her hair curled?

5. What does Halmoni tell Young Ju about heaven?

6. How does Young Ju feel when she is carried into the ocean?

7. Where did Uhmma take Young Ju and Joon in "Being Older"?

8. What does Young Ju think when her baby brother comes home?

9. What happens at the beginning of the book when Apa comes home late?

10. What do Young Ju and Joon get at a fair, and what happens to the things they get?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How might Uhmma and Apa's relationship be described? How did the move to America affect their relationship? What was the ultimate outcome of their relationship, and would it have been the same if they had never moved to America?

Essay Topic 2

Joon thinks that nothing ever happens the way they want it to. Why does Joon think that nothing ever happens the way they want it to? What are examples of dreams Joon has had that have not come to fruition? How is Harry an example of deferred dreams?

Essay Topic 3

Young Ju is just four at the beginning of the book. How does Young Ju mature and come of age in the novel?

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