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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Hsu and his friends sometimes seek in their first year of college?
(a) A modest kind of infamy.
(b) A way to find out who they really were.
(c) A certain type of fun.
(d) A brand of dancing.

4. What was Ken part of that Hsu sometimes looked down his nose at?
(a) A freemason's group.
(b) A magician's club.
(c) A music club.
(d) A fraternity.

5. What motivated Hsu to start his zine at first?
(a) Getting into college.
(b) Getting free clohtes.
(c) Getting free CDs.
(d) Getting free food.

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

7. What did Hsu's mother spend a lot of time during the 1990s on?
(a) Wanted lists.
(b) Missing persons lists.
(c) Video conferences.
(d) Airplanes.

8. What did pictures become evidence of when photography became ubiquitous, according to Hsu?
(a) That you were sorry.
(b) That you had friends.
(c) That you were wrong.
(d) That you existed at all.

9. When did Kurt Cobain die?
(a) March 2009.
(b) January 1998.
(c) May 2000.
(d) April 1994.

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

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

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

13. What industry boomed in Taiwan in the early 1990s?
(a) Appliance.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Food.
(d) Semiconductor.

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

15. What did Hsu think his parents craved?
(a) More money.
(b) Routine stability.
(c) New food.
(d) Religious freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hsu begin identifying himself in college?

2. What did Ken and Hsu often do together when they talked privately?

3. What did Hsu's mother once place an ad in the paper for?

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

5. What does Ken make that Hsu wonders how he knows to make?

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