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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What album did Hsu's parents play so often in particular?
(a) Sea Kings.
(b) Pet Sounds.
(c) Thriller.
(d) War.

2. What kind of car did Hsu have?
(a) Chevy.
(b) Hyundai.
(c) Corvette.
(d) Volvo.

3. What did Hsu say youth is a pursuit of?
(a) A kind of small immortality.
(b) Fame.
(c) Reason.
(d) Friendship.

4. Where does Hsu go to college?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) George Washington University.
(c) University of North Carolina.
(d) Tufts.

5. What was Hsu searching for in the end of Part I?
(a) His freedom.
(b) His calling.
(c) His heritage.
(d) His people.

6. Which band did Hsu particularly like in high school?
(a) U2.
(b) Nivana.
(c) The Who.
(d) The Beatles.

7. What did Hsu spend a lot of time doing his first few weeks at college?
(a) Going to parties.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Volunteering.
(d) Cooking.

8. Where was Ken's hometown?
(a) El Cajon.
(b) Richardstown.
(c) Farington.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

10. What did Hsu's mother once place an ad in the paper for?
(a) Advertising seamstress services.
(b) Advertising Chinese cooking lessons.
(c) Advertising Chinese tutoring.
(d) Advertising pets for sale.

11. What did Ken understand on an instinctive level?
(a) You learn how to manage money in college.
(b) You learn how to clean a house in college.
(c) You learn how to feed birds in college.
(d) You learn how to live with other people in college.

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

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

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

15. What did Hsu's parents do for their honeymoon?
(a) Went to Germany.
(b) Went back to Taiwan.
(c) Took a road trip.
(d) Went to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What law's passage did Hsu and others protest against in 1996?

2. What was Ken part of that Hsu sometimes looked down his nose at?

3. What film did Chris Marker make that Hsu loved?

4. Where does Hsu's father first go to college in America?

5. What did Hsu think people are certain of when they are young?

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