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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 happened to Aunt Tiger's children?

2. Where does Kisa go to get medicine?

3. When Sookan looks after Inchun, what does he call her?

4. Instead of "Town Reds," what does Aunt Tiger call the family?

5. While at the guardhouse, Sookan and Inchun are interrogated ___.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dobraski.

2. How are Inchun and Sookan interrogated by the Russians?

3. After losing Mother at the guard station, who do Sookan and Inchun help in the market?

4. At the end of the book, what has happened to Kisa and Aunt Tiger?

5. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

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

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

8. Describe how Sookan watches out for Inchun overnight in the barn.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore and discuss the theme of youth and its loss within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the antagonists of the story, perhaps mentioning:

1) Captain Narita

2) Narita Sensei

3) Comrade Kim

Essay Topic 3

Explore and discuss the ways in which the Japanese and Russians attempted to control the Koreans, being sure to mention:

1) Propaganda

2) Schoolchildren

3) Forced labor.

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