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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 Lucky push for Pong's jamu beverages?
(a) Pong's Elixirs.
(b) Lucky's Elixirs.
(c) Lucky Pong Elixirs.
(d) Jamu Pong.

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

3. What is the "grease-soaked foot-long hoagie" called that Val buys for Victor Jr.?
(a) The Widowmaker.
(b) The Reuben.
(c) The Italian.
(d) The Fatty Flo.

4. What is Lucky's last name?
(a) Kappagoda.
(b) Wu.
(c) Pan.
(d) Choi.

5. The Red Guard that shouted at the college dean in Pong's story from Chapter 9 said that Chairman Mao deployed them as what throughout the land?
(a) Terrorists.
(b) His thought weapons.
(c) His fists of power.
(d) His apostles of revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 8 as "an alarmingly dry-complexioned white dude" (107)?

2. How does Tiller describe his age in Chapter 1?

3. How large does Pong describe his father's Mao portrait in Chapter 9?

4. Who was Pong's foreman for his basement renovation?

5. With whom does Tiller describe having gone to Six Flags in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tiller do once he landed in Honolulu in Chapter 11?

2. How is Pong's family and home described in Chapter 4?

3. Where does Tiller describe going with VeeJ in Chapter 7? Why?

4. What was Tiller's family like growing up?

5. Why was Pong's father detained by the Red Guards?

6. Where had Val disappeared to before her return in Chapter 10?

7. What passion did VeeJ adopt in Chapter 5? What led to this newfound hobby?

8. What is the name of Pong's jamu product? Who named it and what does the name mean?

9. Where and how did Tiller and Val meet?

10. What is an example of foreshadowing or red herrings in Chapter 7?

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