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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Hsu's father help him with after he moved away?
(a) Math homework.
(b) Music.
(c) Cooking classes.
(d) Literature homework.

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

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

5. What did Hsu's father buy when he moved away?
(a) A new car.
(b) A plane.
(c) Two fax machines.
(d) A boat.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. How did Hsu begin sorting his classmates in his own mind?
(a) By their furniture.
(b) By their musical sensibilities.
(c) By athletic ability.
(d) By their food preferences.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which philosopher's ideas influenced Hsu's thinking about friendship?

2. Where does Hsu go to college?

3. What industry boomed in Taiwan in the early 1990s?

4. What did one of Ken's former girlfriends tell him that he thought was terrible, and he related to Hsu?

5. Where did Ken and Hsu often study together?

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