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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. What does Ko learn when reading the newspaper?
2. What is their first meal in the homeland?
3. What does Mrs. Masuda offer Yoko and Ko?
4. Why won't Hideyo throw away the old Korean clothes?
5. What is Hideyo's motivation to live through the snow storm?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Yoko would choose to write about her experiences at school rather than the ordeal she and her family endured when leaving Korea?
2. How does Ko demonstrate the importance of respect in Japanese culture?
3. Why do you think Yoko titled her essay, "Understanding?"
4. Why does Yoko find it hard to believe that the corporal has found her and Ko?
5. How would you characterize Yoko's classmates' experience during the final months of the war based on the way she is received?
6. In order to survive for as long as Hideyo has in the conditions he has endured, what character traits do you think he possesses?
7. Why do you think Yoko ponders that "it was strange that we did not think more of father, whom we loved dearly" instead of Hideyo?
8. Why do you think Hideyo is so attached to Yoko's fur coat?
9. What are the physical and psychological obstacles facing Hideyo in Chapter 6?
10. Why does Hideyo not want to part with the clothes he gtes from the Lees?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the portrayal of the Korean Communists in the book. Compare and contrast this with historic research and primary documents.
Essay Topic 2
How does Japan's historical interest in Korea, particularly in the two World Wars, affect the characters in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?
Essay Topic 3
There are many times throughout the book when the characters have to lie or be dishonest with people. Under what circumstances did Yoko, Ko, Hideyo, and other characters have to lie throughout their ordeal? What were the consequences, if any, for their dishonesty? Might these lies ever come back to haunt the characters in their future? If so, how?
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