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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stands up for Hyeonseo when the customer yells that Hyeonseo has misunderstood his request because she is North Korean?
(a) The restaurant manager.
(b) Hyeonseo's mother.
(c) Min-ho.
(d) Kim.

2. What is Geun-soo doing when he gets on the phone with Hyeonseo and asks her to come back?
(a) Eating.
(b) Yawning.
(c) Playing a video game.
(d) Weeping.

3. When Hyeonseo is at her lowest point, she decides to blow all of her savings on what item?
(a) New clothes.
(b) A new cell phone.
(c) A car.
(d) A tandem bicycle.

4. What job does Hyeonso take after escaping from the men's salon?
(a) Administrative assistant.
(b) Waitress.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Housekeeper.

5. What is NOT one quality Uncle Jong-gil attributes to Kim Jong-il?
(a) He is a communist.
(b) He lives in palaces.
(c) He lives with brigades of pleasure girls.
(d) He drinks cognac and eats fine cheeses.

6. How many North Korea-operated restaurants exist in Shanghai, according to Hyeonseo's account?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Three.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

7. When Hyeonseo's Uncle Jung-gil tells her that Kim Jong-Il had not been born in Korea, where does he say Kim Jong-il had been born instead?
(a) Laos.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Switzerland.

8. When someone calls Hyeonseo claiming to be a friend of her mother's and asks her how much money she had sent to her mother, what is Hyeonseo's reply?
(a) 10,000 yuan.
(b) 30,000 yuan and 500 American dollars.
(c) She had not sent any money.
(d) She does not remember.

9. What object does Hyeonseo's first customer in her new job ask her for when she mistakenly gives him a piece of gum?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Honey.
(d) A match.

10. After their first phone conversation after many years of separation, how often do Hyeonseo and her mother speak on the phone?
(a) Every morning.
(b) Every evening.
(c) Every weekend.
(d) Once a month.

11. What does Hyeonseo eventually find out had happened to the money she had given to her mother?
(a) Her mother had helped her brothers and sisters.
(b) Her mother had paid for Min-ho to begin college.
(c) Her mother had lost the money gambling.
(d) Her mother had paid a ransom for Min-ho's safe return.

12. How many months after her departure from their home does Hyeonseo wait before contacting her aunt and uncle in Shenyang?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

13. In what year does Hyeonseo see a news story on television about North Koreans seeking political asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2000.

14. What does Hyeonseo say becomes a main topic of conversation between herself and Ok-hee once they see the television news story about the North Korean defectors?
(a) Moving to Shenyang together.
(b) Volunteering to help North Korean defectors.
(c) Getting a new apartment together in Laos.
(d) Moving to South Korea together.

15. In what city does Mr. Ahn live?
(a) Changbai.
(b) Bangkok.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Hyesan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two items does Hyeonseo's mother give to the head of the investigation team in order to have her name removed from the list of suspects?

2. What item does Mr. Ahn buy for Hyeonseo in an attempt to make her "look more Chinese" (102)?

3. When Hyeonseo sinks into depression and no longer wants to talk to anyone, what object does she buy as company?

4. Just before Hyesan disappears from Hyeonseo's view, she thinks of the love and trust in her mother's eyes as she had told Hyeonseo not to stay out too late. What is NOT one way Hyeonseo says she feels at this moment?

5. When Hyeonseo and the other workers enter their workplace, they pass through "a special machine" (160) that does what?

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