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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of media is included within Chapter 8 that appears nowhere else in the memoir?
(a) Calligraphy.
(b) Photography.
(c) A bar graph.
(d) Sheets of music.

2. Bo and Ma are depicted as hearing via what source that the Khmer Rouge have taken the capital of Cambodia?
(a) Secret meetings.
(b) Radio.
(c) Television.
(d) Telephone chains.

3. Chapter 8, entitled "The Shore" begins in what type of setting?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A school.
(c) A meadow.
(d) A beach.

4. During Thi's parents' escape attempt, what happened to the boat?
(a) It hit a rocky shore.
(b) It caught fire.
(c) It hit a river island.
(d) It sank.

5. When the South Vietnamese withdrew, the people in what area were advised to evacuate?
(a) The Eastern Lowlands.
(b) The Central Highlands.
(c) The Western Lowlands.
(d) The Northern Highlands.

6. What objects do communists call "capitalist filth" (220), according to Ma's instructions?
(a) Dresses.
(b) Movies.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

7. Bo describes the "land reforms" (169) as a "process of" (169) as taking what action in relation to society?
(a) Strengthening it.
(b) Destroying it.
(c) Reorganizing it.
(d) Uniting it.

8. Ma shares that she had loved what activity as a child?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Writing.

9. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?
(a) Ma, Bo, and Lan.
(b) Ma and Bo.
(c) Ma, Lan, and Bich.
(d) Bich and Bo.

10. How many pages of strictly visual images does Bui use to depict the stars the night of the escape?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

11. What constant within society does Thi had "riled [Ma] up" (225)?
(a) Neighborhood meetings.
(b) Surveillance.
(c) Famine.
(d) Work shortages.

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

13. Bo describes the First Indochina War as lasting how long?
(a) A century.
(b) A decade.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) Decades.

14. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?
(a) Lan.
(b) Bo.
(c) Ma.
(d) Bich.

15. Bo describes Thai Binh as "deep" what "territory" (164)?
(a) Viet Minh.
(b) Stronghold.
(c) Communist.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thi recalls that which person had talked more openly with Travis than she had with Thi?

2. In what country does Ma say she was born?

3. What is NOT a meaning of the word "nguy" (221) according to Bo?

4. How many months' pregnant was Ma when she and Bo planned their escape?

5. Thi depicts Ma's devotion to her children by showing Ma peeling what type of fruit?

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