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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speaking about her mother, Ma says, "I hated it when my mother" (142) took what action?
(a) Hit the servants.
(b) Left her alone in the house.
(c) Went to bed for days.
(d) Had parties.

2. Bui worries most about which aspect of her parenting while she is still in the hospital after having her son?
(a) Washing.
(b) Bonding.
(c) Holding.
(d) Breast-feeding.

3. Ma says that her father had been a what?
(a) A civil engineer.
(b) A general.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A doctor.

4. Bo says that when he was how old, his father had fallen in love with a neighbor?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

5. When Bo's father came to visit Bo, it had been how many years since they had seen one another?
(a) 10.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened during the very last time Bo ever saw his mother?

2. The city of Hai Phong is how far away from the border of China?

3. When Bo again lived with his grandmother and grandfather at the age of 14, of what material was their roof made?

4. During Thi's parents' escape attempt, what happened to the boat?

5. Bo describes Thai Binh as "deep" what "territory" (164)?

(see the answer key)

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