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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had Hsu never touched before college?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Meat.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Chocolate.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What did Hsu and his peers soon lose their relationship to in their sophomore year?
(a) Mortality.
(b) Free time.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their spirituality.

7. What did Hus's mom often make for potlucks with friends?
(a) Chicken wings.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Meatballs.
(d) Salad.

8. What did Hsu argue you make a world out of as a college student?
(a) Your friends.
(b) The things you buy.
(c) Your family.
(d) Your books.

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

10. Who were Hsu's roommates early in college?
(a) Wendy and Paraag.
(b) Dave and Wendy.
(c) Paraag and Dave.
(d) Paraag and Rob.

11. Who did Hsu live with in his sophomore year of college?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Richard.
(c) Faroh.
(d) Rob.

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

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

14. What city did Hsu mostly live in with his parents?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Farmingham.
(c) Cupertino.
(d) Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What campus in California did Hsu think of as being in a bubble?

2. What did Ken's father do?

3. Which flea market did Hsu sometimes like to frequent?

4. When did Kurt Cobain die?

5. What kind of car did Hsu have?

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