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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: To the Heart of the Dragon, Chapters 19-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the sentence given to the family deported for the father's mistake of rolling a cigarette using a piece of newspaper and failing to notice a picture of the Great Leader on the other side of the scrap?
(a) They are sent to a potato digging work farm.
(b) The family's home is searched daily for a span of five years.
(c) The family is sent to a Chinese prison.
(d) The adults are executed and the children are sent to the gulag.

2. When Hyeonseo and her family move back to Hyesan, they find that the city has changed in what way?
(a) It is choked with industrial waste.
(b) It has become dilapidated.
(c) Business is booming more than ever.
(d) Half of the population has been relocated.

3. What does seo mean in Korean?
(a) Smile.
(b) Health.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Good fortune.

4. How old is Hyeonseo when the family's home catches on fire?
(a) 9.
(b) 24.
(c) 17.
(d) 13.

5. When Hyeonseo is visiting with her Uncle Jung-gil on the day of her arrival, what terrible news does she realize he has not yet heard?
(a) That her sister had died.
(b) That her father had died.
(c) That her brother had been committed to an asylum.
(d) That Kim Il-sung had died.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age are North Koreans forced to join the Socialist Youth League?

2. What does Hyeonseo have to do while her Uncle Jong-gil and Aunt Sang-hee are at work?

3. What object does Hyeonseo's first customer in her new job ask her for when she mistakenly gives him a piece of gum?

4. Hyeonseo says that she will never be truly free of her country's what, no matter how far she travels?

5. About what malady is Hyeonseo speaking when she says that her father displayed signs of "an illness that is not acknowledged in North Korea" (67)?

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