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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. During what part of her pregnancy did Jiyoung suffer morning sickness?
2. When out for drinks with colleagues, what did Jiyoung learn about why she and Hyesu were always given the more difficult clients?
3. What did Jiyoung’s mother convince her father to open in the building across from their old fried chicken shop?
4. What policy did Kim Eunsil implement as soon as she became a manager?
5. What years are covered in the chapter “Early Adulthood”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are girls treated differently than boys in Jiyoung’s college hiking club?
2. What was the final question an interviewer asked the three interviewees during Jiyoung’s first job interview?
3. Why did Jiyoung ultimately agree that their child should keep her father’s surname rather than her mothers?
4. Though Jiyoung had told her husband’s family they were not planning on having children right away what did the family members assume the real reason must be?
5. What did Kim Eunsil say she noticed all new female employees tended to do and told Jiyoung that she did not have to do?
6. What did people say after Jiyoung’s ex-boyfriend was found passed out drunk outside the porridge shop?
7. What business decisions did Jiyoung’s family make that resulted in them doing well financially?
8. Why was it ultimately decided that Jiyoung would leave her work after they had a child rather than return or take maternity leave?
9. What did Jiyoung’s father say to her after she said she was not going to attend graduation and how did her mother reply?
10. What did Jiyoung learn while out for drinks with colleagues that weekend her “drive and faith” (112) when it came to her work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the gender inequities and systemic misogyny Jiyoung experienced both directly and indirectly in the chapter “Adolescence.”
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing gender roles between Kim Jiyoung’s mother and father. In what ways are they stereotypical of the time and place? In what ways are these roles the same or different today? Use specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing the narrative structure of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. What effect does this have on the story and the reader? Use direct examples from the novel to support your analysis.
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