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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, where does Khanh go to pick up his wife’s grandfather?

2. Where was the GI from in Chapter 4 that Miss Noi remembers?

3. What was the religion of the Chapter 2 narrator’s paternal grandfather?

4. In Chapter 4, where does Miss Noi live?

5. In Chapter 4, what does a GI buy Miss Noi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thieu do for a living?

2. What does Thieu remember about the time when Saigon fell?

3. How does Francine describe the French cemetery in Saigon?

4. What does Francine say about her name?

5. What does the narrator in Chapter 1 do during the war?

6. Why did it take so long to get Francine and her mother out of Vietnam?

7. How did the Chapter 1 narrator lose his wife?

8. What was in the room behind a bead curtain in Chapter 2?

9. What did Fran do to try to figure out what cold weather felt like?

10. When and how did Khanh’s wife’s father die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 9, the narrator involuntarily leaves Vietnam. Why didn’t the narrator plan to leave Vietnam? What did he leave behind? Why did the lieutenant help the narrator escape? If the narrator hadn’t escaped, would he have been likely to see his son grow up?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 2, despite her grandfather’s disparaging remarks about women and their roles, the narrator learns to embrace her femininity. How does Grandfather make the narrator feel like a second-class citizen because of her gender? How does the narrator’s last act in Chapter 2 show that she has embraced being a woman?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 15, scents are very important to Dao. How do scents bring back memory? What do scents have to do with his religion? Why are scents used to describe his family? Do the types of scents mentioned depict the characters of family members? What is the last scent that Dao remembers?

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