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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose public degradation and sentencing to hard labor led Pong's mother to quit her job?
(a) Old Bai's.
(b) Marcus Fownes's.
(c) Old Zhou's.
(d) Isaiah Pan's.

2. How does Tiller describe his ethnicity in Chapter 3?
(a) He is 12.5% Asian.
(b) He is 44.5% Asian.
(c) He is 25% Asian.
(d) He is 50% Asian.

3. How large does Pong describe his father's Mao portrait in Chapter 9?
(a) 2 by 3 meters.
(b) 3 by 6 meters.
(c) 3 by 4 meters.
(d) 4 by 6 meters.

4. Where did Pong's father go shopping every morning, which irked Pong?
(a) Surplus Cutter's.
(b) Dollar General.
(c) Food For Less.
(d) Trixie's Groceries.

5. Where did Pong live in 1966?
(a) Shenzhen.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Washington.
(d) New Jersey.

6. What did Pong say his father was most of all in Chapter 9?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A Maoist.
(c) A dreamer.
(d) A Taoist.

7. What did Pong administer to Tiller when he got nauseated after eating yogurt at Pong's shop?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Salvia.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Opium.

8. In Pong's story from Chapter 9, Meng Pei destroyed a replica of what statue?
(a) Christ the Redeemer.
(b) Venus de Milo.
(c) David.
(d) Tian Tan Buddha.

9. Who helped Tiller clean up the mess in Chapter 7?
(a) Leon.
(b) Keefer.
(c) VeeJ.
(d) Val.

10. Where did the man in the dark SUV say he worked when he met Tiller in Chapter 1?
(a) The Postal Service.
(b) The VA.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The CIA.

11. Who is described as Tiller's older cousin that scared him growing up, according to the narrative in Chapter 11?
(a) James.
(b) Drew.
(c) Jasper.
(d) John.

12. What is the name of the yogurt shop where Tiller met with Pong for the first time after the golf course?
(a) Ben & Kerry's.
(b) WTF Yo!
(c) Sweet Treats.
(d) Rockin' Rage.

13. To whom is the following epigraph in the opening of the book attributed? "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe" (9)?
(a) Lao Tzu.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Sartre.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

14. What was Val's mother's profession?
(a) She was a nurse.
(b) She was a doctor.
(c) She was a painter.
(d) She was a teacher.

15. How is Pong's profession described in Chapter 2?
(a) He is an English professor.
(b) He is a chemist.
(c) He is a tax assessor.
(d) He is a banker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Pong's mother's given name?

2. What mess was Tiller left to clean up in Chapter 7?

3. Where did Anand's wife return to live with her family when her husband left her, according to Bags's story in Chapter 8?

4. What did Pikette want to open a chain of, according to Tiller in Chapter 2?

5. What image appeared on Pong's card, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

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