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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction, Prologue, and Part One: The Greatest Nation on Earth, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hyeonseo not start kindergarten in Hyesan as she had thought she would?
(a) Her mother's job is transferred to a new city.
(b) The family's house burns down and they are relocated to a new city.
(c) Her mother decides to teach her at home.
(d) Her father's job is transferred to a new city.

2. What simile does Hyeonseo use to describe the fireball emanating from her childhood home?
(a) Like a snapdragon.
(b) Like a chrysanthemum.
(c) Like a water lily.
(d) Like a peony.

3. What quality of Hyesan does Hyeonseo say leads to its status as a moneymaking town?
(a) Its location across the Yalu River from China.
(b) Its merchant class.
(c) Its proximity to Pyongyang.
(d) Its military status.

4. What percentage of North Korea's population consistently falls within the Hostile category of the songbun caste system?
(a) 40%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 30%.

5. What does Hyeonseo say is the only "permitted outlet for spiritual fervor" (41) in North Korea?
(a) Kim worship.
(b) The business trade.
(c) Self-criticism sessions.
(d) One Catholic mass per year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What level of the caste system is made up of 10-15% of the North Korean population?

2. At the time of her writing, how many years ago does Hyeonseo say North Korea had been created?

3. At what age does Hyeonseo first visit South Korea?

4. What organization had Hyeonseo's grandmother joined at the age of 19?

5. Hyeonseo says that she has learned that people can do without almost anything, but they cannot do without what?

(see the answer key)

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