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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. When did the Trung sisters throw themselves into a river and drown?
(a) 43 B.C.
(b) 43 A.D.
(c) 18. B.C.
(d) 18 A.D.

2. What was the fourth largest export business in the Republic of South Vietnam?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Duck feathers.
(c) Silk.
(d) Goose feathers.

3. In Chapter 10, where did the officer and his mistress spend the afternoon?
(a) Theater.
(b) Market.
(c) Garden.
(d) Park.

4. Who is the Vietnamese genie of marriage?
(a) Rose Silk Thread God.
(b) Lady of the Storehouse.
(c) Lady of the Realm.
(d) Golden Turtle God.

5. In Chapter 11, with whom does Miss Giau live?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, how large is the lot on which the narrator’s house is built?

2. In Chapter 13, on what beaches does the narrator remember playing on with Thuy?

3. What type of trees surround the restaurant in Chapter 11?

4. In Chapter 12, what type of grass grows in the narrator’s yard?

5. How long are Gabrielle and Vinh scheduled to stay in Puerto Vallarta?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom is the narrator speaking in Chapter 8 and why?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 12, how did the narrator have the courage to leave Vietnam?

6. How did the narrator escape Vietnam?

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

8. How did Gabrielle guess wrongly about which women were on which types of game shows?

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

10. In Chapter 12, why didn’t the narrator’s family come with him to America?

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