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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mozasu find school difficult in Book Two, Chapter 10?
(a) School is too easy for him.
(b) He wants to run outside and play instead.
(c) Kids tease him and he struggles with schoolwork.
(d) He does not know how to read.

2. What does Kim say about his politics to Kyunghee in Book Two, Chapter 9?
(a) He wants to become the leader of the freedom movement.
(b) He wants Korea to be controlled by a nation that will be able to help it.
(c) He does not want others to take over Korea.
(d) He is a communist.

3. What does Isak say to Yangjin when he realizes he has tuberculosis in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) "It is probably not tuberculosis."
(b) "I will stay here till I am better."
(c) "I should leave. I do not want to endanger you."
(d) "Get me a doctor."

4. What does Pastor Yoo tell the sister in the dispute in Book One, Chapter 14?
(a) That she should get as much money from the Japanese man as possible and give the excess to the church.
(b) That her virtue is more important than sending money to her family or her brother to school.
(c) That she should become a prostitute.
(d) That she should go to school herself.

5. What does Goro's first clothing order for Mozasu allow Totoyama to do in Book Two, Chapter 12?
(a) Buy a new shop.
(b) Take care of her family.
(c) Pay that month's rent.
(d) Pay for daycare.

6. What does Sunja think when she first sees Hansu again in Book One, Chapter 6?
(a) Excited that they will get to have sex now.
(b) Disappointment that he has not brought her a bigger present.
(c) Angry at him for taking so long.
(d) Proud that a man like him has chosen her.

7. How does Hansu come into Sunja's life again in Book Two, Chapter 6?
(a) He has been following her.
(b) He tells her she is the love of his life.
(c) He asks her to marry him.
(d) He owns the restaurant where she had been employed.

8. Why does Tanaka-san say he will give Kyunghee half the meat she requested in Book One, Chapter 15?
(a) Because, "I want you to bring by some of the Seolleongtang when you are done cooking" (128).
(b) Because, "I hope one day you will become my wife” (128).
(c) Because, "I only want to sleep with you" (128).
(d) Because, "a mother must eat well if she's to raise a strong worker for the Emperor" (128).

9. Why does Sunja tell Isak that she can love his God in Book One, Chapter 9?
(a) Because she is familiar with spirits and Gods and so thinks she can love his God as well.
(b) Because she will agree with anything that Isak says.
(c) Because she wants to deceive him.
(d) Because she spoke to the spirits and they said it was ok.

10. What does Hansu tell Yoseb about Yoseb’s parents in Book Two, Chapter 8?
(a) They were killed because they were landowners.
(b) They are coming to Osaka.
(c) They are waiting for him in the car.
(d) They were not his real parents.

11. Why was Isak surprised he graduated seminary school as described in Book One, Chapter 8?
(a) He did not like the schooling.
(b) He did not think he would live long.
(c) He did not believe in God.
(d) He did not think he was a good student.

12. What do Isak and Sunja eat together in Sunja’s first restaurant in Book One, Chapter 9?
(a) Ramen.
(b) Udon.
(c) Hot pot.
(d) Kalguksu.

13. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to call him in Book One, Chapter 5?
(a) Oppa.
(b) Zaddy.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Oprah.

14. What does Yangin go to get after Isak and Sunja’s marriage ceremony in Book One, Chapter 10?
(a) White rice for rice cakes.
(b) Kimchi.
(c) A new dress for Sunja.
(d) Toffee sweets.

15. What does Coalman Jan say is Isak's religion in Book One, Chapter 3?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Islamic.
(d) Presbyterian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Koh Hansu tell Sunja to be careful for in Book One, Chapter 4?

2. What does Yoseb tell Isak not to do to avoid trouble in the ghetto in Book One, Chapter 12?

3. How does Isak arrive in Yeongdu from Pyongyang in Book One, Chapter 2?

4. Why can Yoseb not ask his boss, Shimamura-san, to help with Isak's imprisonment in Book Two, Chapter 1?

5. What does Sunja tell Hansu when she finds out he is married in Book One, Chapter 6?

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