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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What heirloom did Sookan's mother save?
(a) A tablecloth.
(b) A painting.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A hairpin.

2. Who tries to cheer up Mother after Grandfather dies?
(a) Father.
(b) Haiwon and Okja.
(c) Father Carroll.
(d) Captain Narita.

3. Who had captured and tortured Grandfather?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Koreans.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Americans.

4. During her first day at school, what does Sookan do at lunch?
(a) She shares her food.
(b) She sneaks home.
(c) She reads a Korean novel.
(d) She takes a nap.

5. What does Grandfather do while the children are being told about their family?
(a) Sing.
(b) Pray.
(c) Listen.
(d) Sleep.

6. What is wrong with Grandfather's feet?
(a) They are very rough.
(b) They have a fungus growing in the nails.
(c) He doesn't have feet.
(d) They are mangled and missing toenails.

7. After Grandfather's death, what is Captain Narita's complaint about the factory?
(a) The factory workers make too much noise.
(b) The Japanese army no longer needs socks.
(c) The socks it produces are defective.
(d) There is not enough productivity.

8. When Sookan goes to school, what can she not do?
(a) Wear her hair in pigtails.
(b) Speak Korean.
(c) Eat sandwiches.
(d) Wear shoes inside.

9. Who wrote "Year of Impossible Goodbyes"?
(a) Banana Yoshimoto.
(b) Amy Tan.
(c) Yu Hua.
(d) Sook Nyul Choi.

10. At school, who is nice to Sookan?
(a) No one.
(b) Narita Sensei.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Unhi.

11. Where is Theresa?
(a) In a brothel.
(b) In America.
(c) In the army.
(d) At a convent.

12. What did the Japanese do to two of the towns the family had lived in?
(a) Quarantined them.
(b) Burned them.
(c) Looted them.
(d) Turned them into big cities.

13. Who teaches Sookan about Korean history and language?
(a) Aunt Tiger.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Haiwon.
(d) Inchun.

14. After Grandfather's death, who does Sookan think is punishing her?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Mother.
(c) God.
(d) No one.

15. After the factory is shut down, what is the family ordered to do?
(a) Sell their house.
(b) Begin farming.
(c) Start a new factory.
(d) Send Sookan to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her first day at school, what is confiscated from Sookan at lunchtime?

2. What does "chun" mean?

3. Who tries to fight back as the factory girls are being taken away to be Spirit Girls?

4. After Grandfather's death, who tries to make up for Mother's absent-mindedness?

5. At Japanese school, what is against the rules to do?

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