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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. What would the sisters have won if they had been able to make the deal before theirs?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 11, what time is it?

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

4. What is the name of the apartment complex that refugees were put into in Chapter 12?

5. In Chapter 10, when did the story take place that the narrator tells?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the narrator escape Vietnam?

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

4. What did the major decide had happened to him when he got back into his car in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 8, the narrator extols marriage as it is in Vietnam. What was different about marriage in Vietnam than in America? How did couples usually meet and marry in Vietnam? What was different about the narrator’s betrothal? Did the narrator think there were advantages to marriage in America as compared to Vietnam?

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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