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

2. How old was Trieu when she finally met her birth father?
(a) A teenager.
(b) Ten.
(c) A toddler.
(d) In her twenties.

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

4. What dreams did Andrew's parents have for him before moving to America?
(a) That he would become President.
(b) That he would become a professional baseball player.
(c) That he would marry a beautiful American woman.
(d) That he would become a great engineer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why wasn't Andrew allowed to stay at the hotel he had chosen in Hanoi?

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

3. Who was the first to know that Andrew's brother, Huy, was gay?

4. What did the Nguyen family want to give Andrew as his leaving present before returning to America?

5. Who did Andrew think about most during the final scene in the sea?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What memories does Andrew have about the way his family made money in Vietnam?

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

4. Which of Andrew's siblings were gay, and how did his family react to this?

5. What regrets did Andrew's father carry with him throughout his adult life?

6. What is a gape fish?

7. Why did Chi make the decision to move to San Francisco?

8. What interaction did Andrew have with the one-legged cyclist in Ky An?

9. What aspect of her life brought Chi the greatest amount of stress and sadness?

10. How did Calvin feel about the prospect of moving to America?

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