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

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

3. While being interrogated in the guardhouse, where do the children say they are going?

4. While trying to flee to the South, where are Mother and the children separated?

5. After reaching the South, who helped Sookan and Inchun locate Father's address?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened in 1950?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the uniform of the proletariat.

9. Describe the town meetings.

10. What is a "Worker's Paradise"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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 examples of compassion exhibited by characters within "Year of Impossible Goodbyes."

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