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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what level of school is Thi enrolled when she completes an oral history project?
(a) Graduate school.
(b) Undergraduate work.
(c) Trade school.
(d) High school.

2. The text states that "an estimated 94,000" soldiers from what country died trying to reclaim their country's colony?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

3. In what country do the inhabitants of the boat disembark?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Malaysia.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Thailand.

4. Thi mentions that she used to think of her mother as what type of royal family member?
(a) A duchess.
(b) A princess.
(c) A queen.
(d) A dauphine.

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

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

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

8. Bui writes that whose "in-laws had found a boat for sale and wanted to escape the country" (227)?
(a) Hai's.
(b) Lan's.
(c) Kieu's.
(d) Hang's.

9. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?
(a) American currency.
(b) Vietnamese currency.
(c) Gold bars.
(d) French currency.

10. Bo says that eventually, the land reforms resulted in the deaths of how many people?
(a) 220,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 50,000.

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

12. How old was Bo when he went to see his father in the North?
(a) 14.
(b) 19.
(c) 21.
(d) 11.

13. Thi makes a point of saying that only when which person had returned to the fold of the family did "order and comfort return" (266)?
(a) Bo.
(b) Ma.
(c) Lan.
(d) Bich.

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

15. Thi is depicted as trying what kind of juice in Malaysia?
(a) Apple.
(b) Lilac.
(c) Tomato.
(d) Chrysanthemum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?

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

3. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?

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

5. How old is the only child of Bo and Ma when people start to say that Saigon will "become a sea of blood" (214)?

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