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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. How old was Thieu when Saigon fell?

2. How old was Francine when she finally got out of Vietnam?

3. In Chapter 7, what did the voodoo man give the narrator to put at the man’s house who was having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

4. Where does the Chapter 1 narrator’s ex-wife live?

5. How old was one of Francine’s Vietnamese friends when she got a Russian pen pal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Doctor Joseph tell the narrator to do to stop the man who is having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

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

3. Who is Thap?

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

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

6. Why is it important to make the right sound in the Vietnamese language?

7. What does Thieu try to interest in son in doing when Bill is bored?

8. Who is the narrator of the story in Chapter 2?

9. What was at the Ham Nghi market in Chapter 2?

10. What is so special about apples for Miss Noi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 8, the myth of an emperor who goes to the moon is told. What did the emperor find on the moon? Why did he leave? Why did he begin holding a festival on the fifteenth day of the eight month? In what way did the narrator say that she traveled to the moon? What did she find there? What does she think of the world where she lives now? Is she content in the world where she lives?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator in Chapter 7 is accustomed to getting retribution when someone tries to take his wife. Why doesn’t the narrator ever use physical force? How is he able to deal with the problem when he lives in Vietnam? How does he decide to deal with the problem in America? Does the narrator’s lack of physical prowess interfere with his revenge in any way? How does the narrator use his mind to solve the problem of his wife rather than brawn?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 5, Thieu’s son is growing up American. What is his son’s name? How does Bill dress? What are Bill’s interests? How does Bill respond when his father speaks Vietnamese? How does Thieu’s attempt to interest Bill in a Vietnamese boyhood tradition succeed? Is Bill more Vietnamese or more American?

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