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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 does Maly say she wants for her mother's spirit?

2. Who leaves the keys in a customer's truck, resulting in the truck's theft?

3. Who does Sothy call once she has started to worry about the true intentions of the man who comes in late every night to Chuck's Donuts?

4. What did Sothy's husband used to work as?

5. What does durian remind Toby of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tevy feel about being Khmer?

2. How does Tevy feel about her father after he leaves her family?

3. What is unusual about the man who orders the apple fritters in the story titled "Three Women of Chuck's Donuts"?

4. What kind of party is the family preparing for in the story "Maly, Maly, Maly"?

5. What did Tevy's and Kayley's father once tell them about how Khmer people figure out who to marry?

6. Why does Dr. Heng's wife hang around the shop all the time?

7. What happened to Maly's mother, and how does Maly feel about this?

8. How do the narrator and his friends feel about Justin?

9. How do the narrator and his friends feel about Superking Son in the start of the story titled "Superking Son Strikes Again"?

10. How do Maly and Ves think their extended family feel about them in the story titled "Maly, Maly, Maly"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does addiction affect the way Bond relates to his nuclear family in the story titled "We Would've Been Princes!"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Doctor Heng's wife seem so interested in the Shop in the story titled "The Shop," and what is her influence there actually like? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What changes in Ben's and Anthony's relationship after their group sexual experience with Vinny in the story titled "Human Development"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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