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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 Kisa related to Sookan's family?

2. After Korea is invaded again, where are most young men sent?

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

4. Using his job as a cover, what does Sookan's father do?

5. After the Japanese leave, what flies next to the Korean flag?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Dobraski.

4. After losing Mother at the guard station, how do the children look?

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

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

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

8. What happened in 1950?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the antagonists of the story, perhaps mentioning:

1) Captain Narita

2) Narita Sensei

3) Comrade Kim

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sookan's education within the novel, mentioning:

1) Japanese school

2) Little Proletariat School

3) Grandfather's home lessons

4) Sookan's school in Seoul.

Essay Topic 3

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

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