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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mr. Duong asks Aunt Tam to help which relative of his?
(a) Wife.
(b) Oldest daughter.
(c) Mother-in-law.
(d) Youngest son.

2. Who saw Hang off to the airport?
(a) No one.
(b) Uncle Chinh.
(c) Aunt Tam.
(d) Que.

3. Uncle Chinh demands what of his sister?
(a) Money.
(b) A suitor for his daughter.
(c) American medicine.
(d) Traditional Vietnamese food.

4. Uncle Chinh is diagnosed with what chronic disease?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Asthma
(d) Diabetes.

5. Hang discovers that who died last winter?
(a) Fuzzy White.
(b) Madame Dua.
(c) Neighbor Vi.
(d) The cripple.

6. When Hang returns, who greets her with the announcement of a visitor?
(a) Neighbor Vi.
(b) Madame Dua.
(c) Que.
(d) The scarred woman.

7. What is Uncle Chinh's specialty dish?
(a) Blood custard.
(b) Roast duck.
(c) Pho with tripe.
(d) Banh mi.

8. What does the visitor want?
(a) To buy gold.
(b) To make a loan.
(c) To ask for her hand in marriage.
(d) To sell noodles.

9. Who is the researcher who Uncle Chinh is staying with?
(a) Phuong.
(b) Luong.
(c) Khoa.
(d) The Bohemian.

10. Hang discovers that her mother was in a car accident with what consequence?
(a) Her face and arms are burned.
(b) Her leg is amputated.
(c) She is depressed.
(d) She is blind.

11. Mr. Duong wants Aunt Tam to teach his relative what skill?
(a) Silk weaving.
(b) Wrapping sticky rice.
(c) Making noodles.
(d) Drying tea leaves.

12. When Hang returns, her mother is doing what?
(a) Folding laundry.
(b) Cleaning the bathroom.
(c) Cooking in the kitchen.
(d) Combing her hair.

13. The artist was originally from what country?
(a) Italy.
(b) America.
(c) Scotland.
(d) England.

14. The flowers are often found near what?
(a) Miserable hovels.
(b) Weeds.
(c) All of these.
(d) Rotting algae.

15. How does Hang describe the current landscape?
(a) Nostalgic.
(b) Sterile.
(c) Welcoming.
(d) Oppressive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aunt Tam says that Madame Dua's husband left because of which of her characteristics?

2. What are the words used to describe the legacy left to Hang?

3. Once she arrives in Moscow, Hang goes where to meet her uncle Chinh?

4. Hang offers what candy to her traveling companion on the train?

5. What decision does Hang come to staring up into the night?

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