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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did writing offer to Hsu in the months after Ken's death?
(a) A way of keeping the story straight.
(b) A way of rewriting history.
(c) A way of living outside the present.
(d) A way of focusing on a movie.

2. What did Ken's parents want to make sure of?
(a) That Ken's apartment would be available for someone else to live in.
(b) That everyone was well-fed.
(c) That Ken's sister would still be able to go to college.
(d) That Ken's ashes were scattered in the ocean.

3. Who sang "I'll Be Missing You"?
(a) U2.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) Puff Daddy and Faith Evans.
(d) Fred Henry.

4. What did Hsu do during the game with the mentees?
(a) He played very hard, to the chagrin of many adults.
(b) He broke his leg.
(c) He left early.
(d) He broke his arm.

5. Who did Hsu meet at the new vegetarian restaurant in Berkeley shortly after Ken's death?
(a) Alec and Gwen.
(b) Ben and Marshall.
(c) Marshall and Hattie.
(d) Mira and Ben.

6. What did Hsu think all his classes in college taught?
(a) Finding your voice is hard.
(b) Reading is essential to success.
(c) Another world was once possible.
(d) Everything is political.

7. What did Hsu think Ken would have though was funny from Ken's own funeral program?
(a) That there were so many flowers on it.
(b) That it had a lot of misspellings.
(c) That it identified Hsu as a member of Ken's fraternity.
(d) That there was a picture of a deer on it.

8. Where did Hsu volunteer as a mentor in Part III?
(a) Richmond Youth Project.
(b) The Berkeley Library.
(c) The Frozen Yogurt.
(d) The Framing Horse.

9. When did Ken throw a housewarming party in Part III?
(a) Mid-August.
(b) Mid-July.
(c) Mid-October.
(d) Mid-September.

10. What did Hsu ask Ken about at Ken's party?
(a) Music advice.
(b) Academic advice.
(c) Romantic advice.
(d) Financial advice.

11. What did Hsu write in his journal that it was weird to do without Ken?
(a) Grow up.
(b) Work.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

12. What did Hsu mostly want to get out of mentoring the kids in Richmond?
(a) He wanted to know what it was like to be poor.
(b) He wanted to learn how to teach.
(c) He wanted to recapture his youth.
(d) He wanted to be liked.

13. What did Hsu write that friendship rests on in Part III?
(a) Money.
(b) Reciprocity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Shared interests.

14. Where did Hsu and Mira begin to tutor adults?
(a) Marshall Community Center.
(b) Kendrick Barston.
(c) San Quentin State Prison.
(d) Richards Highlands.

15. What did the owner of the unit where Ken's killers lived say about the man involved?
(a) He had seemed sad.
(b) He had seemed suspicious.
(c) He had seemed nice.
(d) He had seemed disturbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of his mentees did Hsu tell about Ken eventually?

2. Where did Hsu go after Ken's party?

3. What record store did Ken and Hsu go to together early in Part III?

4. What did one of Hsu's students bring in his car that made Hsu angry?

5. What did Berkeley offer Ken's friends?

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