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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hsu find himself doing at the same time as his parents?
(a) Assimilating.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Learning to drive.
(d) Going to college.

2. What does Ken make that Hsu wonders how he knows to make?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Tiramisu.
(c) Cake.
(d) Hot chocolate.

3. What did Hsu refer to as the "unreachable horizon of modern life" in speaking about the work of Charles Taylor?
(a) Authenticity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Loyalty.

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

5. What did Ken try to pull Hsu and his friends into at one point?
(a) His job.
(b) His fraternity.
(c) His religion.
(d) His farm.

6. What did Ken ask Hsu to do with him soon after they first met?
(a) Shop for clothes.
(b) Play badminton.
(c) Cook together.
(d) Loan him money.

7. What industry boomed in California in the early 1990s?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Tech.
(c) Food.
(d) Appliance.

8. What was a drag to Hsu and his friends in college?
(a) Protesting.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) The present.

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

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

11. What did Hsu's mother's father write on a chalboard every day?
(a) A poem.
(b) A recipe.
(c) A drawing.
(d) A new word in English.

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

13. In what dyamic are immigrants often discussed?
(a) Liminal.
(b) Febrile.
(c) Tensile.
(d) Push-and-pull.

14. What did Hsu's father ask him what he thought the meaning of was late in Part I?
(a) Lightness.
(b) Fun.
(c) Mourning.
(d) Dysfunction.

15. Where did Hsu's father move when he was a teenager?
(a) Taiwan.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Hong Kong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hsu go to college?

2. How did Hsu begin sorting his classmates in his own mind?

3. What motivated Hsu to start his zine at first?

4. How did Hsu begin identifying himself in college?

5. What city did Hsu mostly live in with his parents?

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