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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. What did Young-sook buy for her grandmother in "When Thoughts Turn to Weddings"?

2. How old was Young-sook when she first met Mi-ja?

3. How old was Young-sook when she was working in Vladivostok in "Leaving-Home Water-Work"?

4. What grains were known to grow on Jeju?

5. In "A Golden Rope," how old was Young-sook's daughter when her water-work contract ended?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Sun-sil's death, why could Young-sook's brothers not go to school?

2. In "When Thoughts Turn to Weddings," what did Young-sook learn had happened to her family while she was gone?

3. How did Mi-ja feel about the marriage arranged for her and Lee Sang-mun?

4. How was Yu-ri after she regained consciousness?

5. Why was Mi-ja allowed to go to Vladivostok with the other haenyeo in "A Golden Rope"?

6. Why was Mi-ja allowed to come to Hado every other day in September?

7. In "Day 1: 2008," why does a family group approach Young-sook when she is collecting algae on the beach?

8. How did Sun-sil die?

9. What did Yu-ri do after Young-sook's mother sounded the call that the day was done after her first dive in 1938?

10. What were the circumstances of the birth of Mi-ja's first child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author use historical details in the book? How do the details that the author uses in the book about the Jeju people imitate events from real life?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Mi-ja’s father and her husband worked for the Japanese. What term was used to describe people who worked for the Japanese? Why were they called collaborators? Why did the people of Jeju hate collaborators?

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