Q 01/05

Linda Sue Park borrowed the name Keoko from which relative, who was made to use it under Japanese rule?

A) Her grandmother

B) Her mother

C) Her aunt

D) Her cousin

Answer · why

B) Her mother

Her mother was renamed Kyoko during the occupation; Park respelled it Keoko so that English-speaking children would pronounce it correctly.

Q 02/05

Which tree, a national symbol of Korea, does Sun-hee's family pot and hide in a shed in When My Name Was Keoko?

A) Weeping willow

B) Persimmon tree

C) Flowering dogwood

D) Rose of Sharon

Answer · why

D) Rose of Sharon

Rose of Sharon trees are ordered dug up across Korea, so Omoni has one small tree potted and hidden; the children replant it by the front door once th...

Q 03/05

Believing Tae-yul dead, Omoni puts on mourning clothes of which color in When My Name Was Keoko?

A) White

B) Black

C) Red

D) Blue

Answer · why

A) White

White mourning clothes go on the day after a box arrives holding Tae-yul's last letter and a sword, yet he later walks back through the door alive.

Q 04/05

Which Japanese first name does Tae-yul take when his family registers as Kaneyama in When My Name Was Keoko?

A) Hiroshi

B) Kenji

C) Nobuo

D) Takeshi

Answer · why

C) Nobuo

Nobuo is the name he must answer to at school, where lessons have turned into lectures and recitations designed to glorify Japan.

Q 05/05

Which American treat from a ration box does Sun-hee's family taste for the first time in When My Name Was Keoko?

A) Marshmallows

B) Chewing gum

C) Peanut butter

D) Canned peaches

Answer · why

B) Chewing gum

Chewing gum arrives after Japan's surrender in a ration box that also holds cigarettes, rice and crackers, and nobody in the house knows quite what to...