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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 11, what is Miss Giau’s religion?

2. In Chapter 12, what is the brand of the shoe that used to belong to a famous person?

3. In Chapter 13, what was Thuy’s favorite apple?

4. In Chapter 12, where does the narrator live?

5. What type of business does Gabrielle’s husband run in America?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the memory of fighting that the narrator shares in Chapter 9?

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

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 12, why are the poor spineless?

6. In Chapter 11, why does Mr. Cohen say that Christmas is not his holiday?

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

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

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

10. What did the narrator in Chapter 13 do after her husband died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 7, the narrator admits that he is a wimpy man. Why is the narrator a wimp? How does his lack of physical presence affect his marriage? What does he do that enhances his status with his wife? How does that affect his relationship with his wife?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 11, snow frightens both Miss Giau and Mr. Cohen. Were both of them used to snow? What traumatic experience made Mr. Cohen afraid of snow? Ever after, what did he think of when he saw snow? When did Miss Giau first see snow? How did it affect her emotionally? How did she compare what she saw to how she felt?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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