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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 runs the Last Chance Ranch?

2. Why does The Last Chance Ranch call to insist Sae-ri collects her son?

3. How did Soo first meet Jae?

4. What happens in Ji-won's class that upsets all the children and parents?

5. What kind of business do Soo and Jae run in the story "The Church of Abundant Life"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Soo and Jae have no children?

2. Why does Sae-ri's mother finally send Matthew over to America and to Sae-ri from Korea?

3. How does Soo know Ki-tae?

4. How does Sae-ri feel about her husband after some years of marriage?

5. What does Sae-ri tell Matthew when she comes to collect him at Last Chance Ranch?

6. How does Sae-ri think of her own character as she was as a young woman?

7. Why does the director of the Last Chance Ranch call Sae-ri and tell her to pick her son up?

8. What tragedy launched Ki-tae's career as a preacher?

9. What is Soo's relationship with Jae like in the present?

10. Why was Soo so disappointed when she first came to America from Korea as a young married woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What contrasts does Sae-ri draw between "typical" marital relationships in Korea versus what she understands of the same in America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

In the story "First Language," how does Choi communicate and explain Sae-ri's complex feelings towards and perceptions about her husband to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

In "A Map of the Simplified World," what sacrifices does Li Ji-Won make as she grows up in the service of assimilating into American culture? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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