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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What moral summed up Andrew's experiences in Vietnam?
(a) Historic wrongs can never be undone.
(b) Try and you shall succeed.
(c) People are the same, all across the world.
(d) Love is all you need.

2. When Andrew was escaping Vietnam as a child, for what was the young woman he met on the street searching the sky?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Angels.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Stars.

3. What name did Chi use during her years on the street?
(a) Ho.
(b) Minh.
(c) Pham Pham.
(d) Huang.

4. When Andrew remembers urinating in the river with Chi as children, with what emotion is he flooded?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Envy.

5. Where did Andrew's father tape the newspaper article that he saved for over a decade?
(a) To the inner lining of his wallet.
(b) On the dashboard of his car.
(c) On the bathroom mirror.
(d) On his bedside lampshade.

6. What was the newspaper article Andrew's father saved for over a decade about?
(a) Financial investments.
(b) The American Dream.
(c) The beauty of Vietnam.
(d) Family relationships.

7. Who was Andrew pretending to hide from underneath the dining room table?
(a) Vietnamese soldiers.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) The Bogeyman.
(d) Indians.

8. What did Cuong/Calvin do for a living?
(a) He was a missionary.
(b) He was a travel guide.
(c) He was a dentist.
(d) He was a jade cutter.

9. Which city in Vietnam was Andrew's mother's favorite city?
(a) Nha Trang.
(b) Khamer Reef.
(c) Bun Bo Hue.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

10. What was the first holiday Huy spent with his family as a gay man?
(a) Valentine's Day.
(b) New Year.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Christmas.

11. How old was Andrew in his memories of playing with a toy gun under the dining room table?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

12. Why wasn't Andrew beaten-up by the bullies who harassed him about the Coke?
(a) They were too drunk to fight him.
(b) They forgave him when they learned he was American.
(c) The shopkeeper intervened.
(d) They got into a fight with another gang instead.

13. Why didn't Cuong/Calvin want to move to America?
(a) Because he was afraid of American racism.
(b) Because he couldn't afford it.
(c) Because he felt like a king in Vietnam.
(d) Because he thought it was selling out on one's heritage.

14. What dark secret did Trieu share with Andrew about her father?
(a) He was convicted of war crimes from the Vietnam War.
(b) He fathered children all across Vietnam and America, and didn't know how many children he actually had.
(c) He had tried to molest her.
(d) He was not really her father but her older brother.

15. What event did Andrew inadvertently witness when he was hiding underneath the dining room table?
(a) His mother making plans to leave his father.
(b) His father beating his mother.
(c) His sister binding her breasts.
(d) A man and woman having sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Andrew that Vietnam's national heroine was a prostitute named Kieu?

2. From what country was the businessman with whom Andrew shared "Gaping Fish"?

3. How did Andrew help the woman who had fainted on the road in Hue?

4. To what city did Chi run away after her father's arrest?

5. What was Andrew most looking forward to at his grandpa's memorial?

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