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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. Who was the headliner at the first real live show Zauner ever played?

2. Where did Zauner grow up?

3. Where did Zauner's boyfriend go to college?

4. What was Zauner's mother, Chongmi, doing for a living in 1983?

5. How does Zauner's mother express her love?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Zauner find herself crying in H Mart in Chapter 1?

2. When and why did Zauner's relationship with her father start to sour?

3. How did Zauner's mother react to her interest in music when Zauner was a teenager?

4. What happens to Zauner the year she turns 25?

5. What is Zauner's perspective on the kind of child she was?

6. Why did Zauner feel that her mother pressured her when she was a child and adolescent?

7. How did Zauner's father handle Chongmi's illness?

8. In Chapter 5, what is one of the most hurtful things Chongmi told Zauner during their difficult years?

9. How did Zauner feel about spending six weeks in Korea every other summer as a child?

10. Why did Zauner's mother insist that she would only do a few rounds of chemotherapy initially?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Zauner experience the summer trips to Seoul with her mother as a child, and how does she remember these trips as an adult? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What is Zauner's experience of growing up as a mixed-race child of Korean heritage in America? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does Zauner explain her experiences of grief, both before and after her mother's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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