Background
The author of The Kite Fighters.
Who is Linda Sue Park?
Kee-sup's gift on the New Year's Day celebration.
What is a kite?
Kee-sup and Young-sup first meet the king here.
What is the hillside?
Kite fighters will be this if they fall out of the white circle.
What is elimination/disqualification?
A tok-gabi is this?
What is a small/invisible spirit that likes to create problems (for example, burns the rice, makes the kite not fly well)?
Where the story takes place.
What is Seoul, Korea?
Kee-sup decorates Young-sup's kite with these.
What are stripes?
Kee-sup uses this to decorate the kings kite?
What is gold-leaf paint?
The boys use this to make their kites.
What is smashed cooked rice?
Being minuscule is described this way?
What is something very small or tiny?
The year the story took place?
What is 1473?
Kee-sups capping ceremony celebrates what.
What is adulthood/manhood/coming of age.
The King commanded Young-sup to teach him this.
What is speaking like a regular boy (how friends/brothers speak to one another)?
Kim He-nam has won the New Years Kite fighting competition this many times.
What is 2 times?
In the following sentence the word frayed means this.
"Finally, after two more hard-fought encounters, the opponent's line was frayed to a mere hair."
What is weakened?
The genre of the Kite Fighters.
What is historical fiction?
Young-sup makes a deal to sell how many of these for Kite seller Chung to get his reel.
What are 7 kites?
The king travels in this to see the brothers on the hillside.
What is a palanquin?
What did the king give the winners?
What is lantern kites
In the following sentence "myriad" means this.
Kee-sup had a myriad of ideas to decorate the King's kite, but none of them were right.
What is a great number or numerous.
The publisher of our book.
Who is Houghton Mifflin?
If Kee-sup scores high on the Royal Examinations, he may be able to work here.
What is at the kings court?
The game the king is a master at is called this. Bonus: Kee-sup wonders if the King is so good at this because....
What is shuttlecock?
What is lonlieness or no friends to play with in the palace.
Young-sup and Kee-sup put on this questionably honorable mixture on their kite line.
What are pottery shards?
In the following sentence, "coveted" means this.
"Such coveted positions were awarded based on the examination results; however, it was well known that those in favor at the court were looked on with added grace."
What is greatly desired?