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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. What happens when Sookan crawls under the barbed wire fence?
(a) She dies.
(b) She breaks the fence.
(c) She gets cut.
(d) Nothing.

2. After the Japanese leave, who invades Korea?
(a) China.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Russia.

3. While searching for their mother, why do Inchun and Sookan look diseased?
(a) They are skinny and smell bad.
(b) They are wearing hospital gowns.
(c) They have swollen eyes and cough a lot.
(d) They are covered with mosquito bites.

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

5. What is found in the house where Captain Narita lived?
(a) Stockpiles of rice.
(b) A journal.
(c) A secret Buddhist shrine.
(d) Dead bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes pity on Sookan and Inchun and tells them to meet him at the train station later that night?

2. While escaping to the South, how do Sookan and Inchun cross the river?

3. While escaping to the South, why does Sooken take off her shoes?

4. How do Sookan and Inchun help a young mother at the market?

5. How is the guide who is to take the family south dressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Aunt Tiger and Mother feel about Communism and why?

2. After the Russians invade northern Korea, where is father and what is he doing?

3. What does Aunt Tiger do to ease suspicions about the family's true opinion about Communism? How well does it work out?

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

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

6. Who helps Sookan and Inchun when they get across the border? How?

7. Why are the school children encouraged to talk about their home life?

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

9. After the Japanese evacuate, what happens to Unhi's brothers?

10. What does the family do when they find out that the war is over?

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