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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Hsu spent a lot of time as a teenager?
(a) On the hiking trail.
(b) Doing his landscaping job.
(c) In pools.
(d) In his car.

2. What did Hsu desperately want to be the type of person to do?
(a) Cook well.
(b) Be able to look effortlessly vague.
(c) Understand poetry.
(d) Be able to compete in athletics.

3. What did Ken's father do?
(a) Sell insurance.
(b) He was an engineer.
(c) Cook.
(d) Landscape.

4. What law's passage did Hsu and others protest against in 1996?
(a) Proposition 209.
(b) Proposition 300.
(c) Proposition 209.
(d) Proposition 305.

5. How did Hsu begin identifying himself in college?
(a) As a straight-edge.
(b) As a rebel.
(c) As a make-up artist.
(d) As a musician.

6. What did Ken initially think he wanted to study?
(a) Politics.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Literature.
(d) Architecture.

7. How does time move when you are young, according to Hsu?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Slow.
(c) Fast.
(d) At a normal pace.

8. What city did Hsu think was "lame"?
(a) San Diego.
(b) Boston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Strysdale.

9. What city was not far enough away for Hsu from Cupertino to go to college?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Boston.

10. How did Hsu's father refer to his zine?
(a) As his pet project.
(b) As his publications.
(c) As his stone.
(d) As his thesis.

11. What did one of Ken's former girlfriends tell him that he thought was terrible, and he related to Hsu?
(a) She always ate takeout.
(b) She hated diversity.
(c) She never voted.
(d) Her life had always been a dream.

12. Why did Hsu think some Californians grew up with a sense of entitlement?
(a) Simply because they get to live in California.
(b) because they are farmers.
(c) Because they are friendly.
(d) Because they are wealthy, usually.

13. Where did Ken and Hsu often study together?
(a) Ken's house.
(b) The car.
(c) Cafes and the library.
(d) Hsu's house.

14. What film did Chris Marker make that Hsu loved?
(a) The Bicycle Thief.
(b) The Rostrar.
(c) Breathless.
(d) La Jetee.

15. Hsu wrote that there are many different types of which of the following in friendship?
(a) Collages.
(b) Currencies.
(c) Vulnerabilities.
(d) Placations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hsu's father always ask him after he moved away in their correspondence?

2. What did Ken try to pull Hsu and his friends into at one point?

3. When did Kurt Cobain die?

4. What did Hsu spend a lot of time doing his first few weeks at college?

5. What did Hsu's father buy when he moved away?

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