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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bui states in the Preface that she helped to open what sort of high school?
(a) Magnet.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Drama.
(d) Alternative.

2. What source does Thi NOT name among her childhood sources of knowledge about America?
(a) Books.
(b) Ma's citizenship class.
(c) Her sisters' attendance of school.
(d) Television.

3. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. What happened during the very last time Bo ever saw his mother?
(a) Bo's mother kissed him goodbye and told him to be good.
(b) Bo's father beat up his mother and threw her out.
(c) Bo's grandfather beat up Bo's grandmother.
(d) Bo's mother crossed the border into China.

5. When Bich runs away from home, Ma takes what action?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She slaps Lan.
(c) She attempts suicide.
(d) She disowns Bich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bo and Ma are depicted as hearing via what source that the Khmer Rouge have taken the capital of Cambodia?

2. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?

3. In what level of school is Thi enrolled when she completes an oral history project?

4. Thi recalls that one day her family received a box full of what objects from Vietnam?

5. In what year does Ma say she was born?

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