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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10 when the officer awakened after seeing a woman in the road, how long had he been unconscious?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 45 minutes.

2. In Chapter 11, what is Miss Giau’s religion?
(a) Christian.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Confucian.
(d) Buddhist.

3. In Chapter 13, where does the narrator live?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Lake Charles.
(d) New Orleans.

4. In Chapter 10, what city is the setting?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Lake Charles.

5. In Chapter 12, what color is the leather of the shoe that used to belong to a famous person?
(a) Teakwood.
(b) Mahogany.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time the narrator relates the time when he and the other men rested, how many men had he seen killed?

2. In Chapter 13, how old would the narrator and Thuy have been?

3. In Chapter 9, where does the narrator remember stopping to rest?

4. What was the fourth largest export business in the Republic of South Vietnam?

5. In Chapter 10, where is the narrator going?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where did Thuy and the narrator meet Ly?

2. Where did Mr. Cohen live before he lived in the United States?

3. What does the narrator discover in Chapter 13 when she prepared Thuy’s body?

4. In Chapter 9, why does the narrator write to his son?

5. Why are iguanas popular in Puerto Vallarta?

6. In Chapter 8, why didn’t the narrator marry Bao?

7. In Chapter 11, what frightened Miss Giau during her first Christmas in America?

8. As Gabrielle watches a man strapped into a parachute, what does Vinh ask her to remind him?

9. Why does the narrator in Chapter 9 find it strange that he escaped Vietnam and so many others didn’t?

10. Why does Gabrielle believe a woman at the pool wearing a black two-piece suit won a puzzle-solving show?

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