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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 does Mai put on the window in Chapter 10, when she is trying to overhear her grandmother's conversation?
(a) Rotten banana.
(b) Rotten pomelo.
(c) Rotten dragon fruit.
(d) Rotten lychee.

2. What does the paste smell like that Co Hanh puts on Mai's face for her pimples?
(a) Lemon and ginger.
(b) Peppermint.
(c) Mint and ginger.
(d) Licorice.

3. In Chapter 5 when Ba and Mai are taken inside to eat, what does Ba remove from Mai's bowl that she knows Mai will not eat?
(a) Shrimp paste.
(b) Chicken foot.
(c) Cobra heart.
(d) Beetle.

4. What does Ba eat for nausea?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Lemon.
(c) Peppermint.
(d) Ginger.

5. How many children did Ba have to raise on her own?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mai's favorite month at Laguna Beach?

2. What does Ba put on Mai's mosquito bites?

3. What are the only things that Mai's mother packed for her?

4. What do some girls embroider on the thongs Mai shows them how to make?

5. How far is Ong's ancestral home from the house where Mai and Ba eat and sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long has Ut been studying English, and how easy is it for Mai to communicate with her?

2. What does Co Tam, Ut's mother, invite Ba and Mai to attend and why does Mai want to go?

3. What are Mai's thoughts after her short call with Montana in Chapter 9?

4. What does Mai love about Laguna Beach in June?

5. When did Mai's family leave Vietnam?

6. Why are the people at Ba's old village amazed by Mai?

7. Who is Minh?

8. What does Mai find that her mother left for her in her suitcase?

9. What does Mai learn about Ut when her mother introduces them and tells them to go play?

10. How does Mai spy on her grandmother and the detective in Chapter 10?

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