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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Miss Noi live when she first came to the United States?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Winston-Salem.
(c) Baton Rouge.
(d) Pensacola.

2. When does Fran say that many young people died in Saigon?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1970.

3. What does Fran tell her friends that her name is?
(a) Tran.
(b) An.
(c) Hien.
(d) Xuan.

4. The first time that Fontenot talks with Miss Noi, what does he buy to drink?
(a) 7-Up.
(b) Pepsi.
(c) Coke.
(d) Dr. Pepper.

5. In Chapter 2, where were the narrator’s parrots and grandmother, when her grandfather asked her to go talk to Mr. Green?
(a) Front porch.
(b) Under a banana tree.
(c) Living room.
(d) Kitchen.

6. Where does Francine find a footlocker of old letters her father wrote?
(a) Attic.
(b) Storage shack.
(c) Basement.
(d) Guest room.

7. When Francine lived in Vietnam, where would she and her friends play hide-and-seek?
(a) French cemetery.
(b) Market.
(c) Bombed out building.
(d) Woods.

8. In Chapter 3, where does Khanh plan to open another laundry?
(a) Moss Bluff.
(b) Orange.
(c) Jennings.
(d) Sulpher.

9. When did Miss Noi come to America?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1974.

10. Where does the Chapter 1 narrator live?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Paris.

11. Where was the GI from in Chapter 4 that Miss Noi remembers?
(a) Texas.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Mississippi.

12. What is Mr. Chinh wearing when he gets off the plane in Chapter 3?
(a) Red-and-black-plaid sport shirt.
(b) Green t-shirt.
(c) Black dress shirt.
(d) Blue chambray shirt.

13. In Chapter 2, how old was the narrator when her grandfather died?
(a) 16.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 31.

14. In Chapter 6, how long has Francine been in the United States?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 2 years.

15. In Chapter 2, where was the narrator’s childhood home located?
(a) Bank of the Red River.
(b) Bank of the Black River.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Da Nang.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what type of door was on the room where Grandfather took the narrator?

2. In Chapter 2, where did the narrator’s father grow up?

3. How old is the narrator when she tells her story in Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 7, what does the narrator’s wife’s name mean?

5. In Chapter 3, what type of sale is the Texas Winners running?

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