Pachinko

Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Book 1, Chapters 1-6

Reading Check

1. What do Hoonie’s parents do?

2. What is the name of Hoonie and Yangjin’s daughter?

3. What is Isak’s brother’s name?

4. Why does Yangjin move Isak to the storage room?

Multiple Choice

1. Why do Hoonie’s parents worry that he won’t be able to marry?

A) He has a cleft palate and twisted foot.

B) He has no interest in marriage.

C) He wishes to become a priest.

D) He wants to join the military to fight Japan.

2. Why does Yangjin stay out of conversations about politics with the lodgers?

A) She never agrees with them.

B) She worries that the authorities will arrest her for speaking out against the Japanese government.

C) She thinks that it could cause trouble for the boardinghouse.

D) She wants Sunja to follow her example.

3. Why does Sunja start talking to Koh Hansu?

A) She is dared to do so by another woman at the market.

B) He saves her from three boys who try to assault her.

C) Yangjin has started making comments about her need to marry.

D) Koh Hansu threatens her family.