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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work does Tevy's professor require students to title their essays in the style of?
(a) In the Order of Things.
(b) On Certainty.
(c) On Walden.
(d) Joyce's The Dead.

2. What does the strange man in the story "Three Women of Chuck's Donuts" continuously order?
(a) A hot chocolate.
(b) A beer.
(c) A cheese sandwich.
(d) An apple fritter.

3. In the story titled "Maly, Maly, Maly," where do Maly and Ves seek shelter to get out of the house in the beginning of the story?
(a) The donut shop.
(b) The air-conditioned truck.
(c) The library.
(d) Ves's house.

4. Where does Toby's dad ask him to stock up on supplies for the shop?
(a) Costco.
(b) KMart.
(c) Sears.
(d) Pennys.

5. What does Justin's father do for a living?
(a) He is a writer.
(b) He is an accountant.
(c) He is a pharmacist.
(d) He is a lawyer.

6. What does Toby call Dr. Heng's wife?
(a) Ma.
(b) Pou.
(c) Ming.
(d) Harley.

7. What nationality does the man who comes in late to Chuck's Donuts tell the girls he is?
(a) Indian.
(b) Japanese.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Russian.

8. How did Maly's mother die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Suicide.
(c) From cancer.
(d) Childbirth.

9. Who raises Maly?
(a) Ma Sothy.
(b) Ma Eng.
(c) Ma Ravy.
(d) Ma Fung.

10. Why does Sothy give her ex-husband 20% of Chuck's Donuts' profits?
(a) So he will not tell anyone about her affair.
(b) So he can put it in their daughters' college funds.
(c) So he can go to college.
(d) So he can pay back the loan they took from his uncle.

11. Who is Paul's girlfriend?
(a) Rose.
(b) Cheryl.
(c) Maly.
(d) Meryl.

12. What poster do Ves and Maly often stare at, stoned, at the video store?
(a) Lolita.
(b) Bunked.
(c) Clerks.
(d) Legends of the Fall.

13. What does Maly hardly ever talk about in a serious way?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Rithy.
(c) Her baby.
(d) Her brother.

14. Where do the three women of Chuck's Donuts routinely send a catering order of donuts?
(a) The fancy restaurant across the street.
(b) The girls' school.
(c) The homeless shelter they used to stay at.
(d) The hospital down the street.

15. Why does Tevy resent her father?
(a) He died very young.
(b) He stole money from her college fund.
(c) He cheated on her mother and left their family.
(d) He told her she needs to work much harder in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Tevy?

2. What is the purpose of the party Maly's family is preparing for?

3. Who comes to the shop almost every day giving unsolicited advice?

4. Who is Toby having an affair with?

5. What does the man who comes into Chuck's Donuts in the wee hours of the morning always wear?

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