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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By train, how many days did it take to travel from Mung Man to Hanoi?
(a) Five days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Six days.
(d) Four days.

2. What was the number one topic of conversation at Grandpa Pham's memorial?
(a) Death.
(b) Sex.
(c) Money.
(d) Religion.

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

4. Why was Grandmother Pham upset on the way to the memorial of her husband's death?
(a) Because she hadn't approved the lunch menu.
(b) Because she was unhappy about the way her daughter was being treated by the family.
(c) Because she wanted to be driven to the event by her son, not her grandson.
(d) Because she thought it was disrespectful to commemorate death.

5. Who told Andrew that Vietnam's national heroine was a prostitute named Kieu?
(a) A university professor.
(b) A beautiful young prostitute.
(c) A homeless woman begging on the street.
(d) Andrew's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often did the Pham family visit the beach in California?

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

3. How long was Andrew sent to jail for his crime aboard the boxcar?

4. Why wasn't Andrew beaten-up by the bullies who harassed him about the Coke?

5. When Andrew remembers urinating in the river with Chi as children, with what emotion is he flooded?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Nguyen family say goodbye to Andrew when it was time for him to return to America?

2. What did Andrew and Chi talk about during their last conversation, before Chi killed herself?

3. What argument broke out at the Pham family's memorial to their Grandfather?

4. Why wasn't Andrew allowed to board the commuter train from Muong Man?

5. Whose mummified remains are kept in the mausoleum in Hanoi?

6. What two images does Andrew encounter that he believes are perfect symbols for the people of Japan?

7. What happened when the police stopped Andrew on the cargo train to Hanoi?

8. How did Chi's life change during her fourteen years on the streets?

9. What opinion did the American Vietnam War vet, whom Andrew met in a coffee shop, have about the War?

10. Why did Andrew have trouble finding a place to stay in Hanoi?

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