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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Sookan and Inchun help a young mother at the market?
(a) They cook for her.
(b) They babysit.
(c) They recruit customers.
(d) They watch for thieves.

2. Using his job as a cover, what does Sookan's father do?
(a) Grows extra beans.
(b) Recruits new Communists.
(c) Helps people escape to the South.
(d) Poisons Communist food.

3. What does the old man at the train station give to Sookan and Inchun?
(a) A spanking.
(b) Clean socks.
(c) Directions on how to get home.
(d) Special tickets.

4. Who joins the Party in hopes of relieving any suspicions about Sookan's family?
(a) Inchun.
(b) Aunt Tiger.
(c) No one.
(d) Mother.

5. What is the uniform in the Worker's Paradise?
(a) White shirt, black pants, and red scarf.
(b) Jeans and an apron.
(c) Kimono and clogs.
(d) There isn't a uniform.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Sookan and Inchun are almost to the South, what do they hear behind them?

2. Who is at home when Sookan's house is robbed?

3. What animals do Sookan and Inchun see at the guardhouse while searching for Mother?

4. How does Mother finally reach the South?

5. At the Little Proletariat School, what are the children given as an incentive to talk about their families?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think that Korea is better off with the Russians than the Japanese?

2. What do you think is the real reason the guide wanted Mother to separate from Sookan and Inchun?

3. What is significant about Unhi's family and house?

4. How does Mother eventually make it to the South?

5. Describe the guide who is to lead the family to the South.

6. Describe Mrs. Kim.

7. After the Japanese have left and the Russians invade, why doesn't America come to help the Koreans in the North?

8. What does the guide tell the children to do if their mother is captured? What do they actually do?

9. How does the conductor help Sookan and Inchun?

10. Describe the town meetings.

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