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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Ben, Ken, and Sean often do in Hsu's car?
(a) Fall asleep.
(b) Sing.
(c) Make phone calls.
(d) Eat.
2. Where did Hsu and his friends go on a trip right before senior year started?
(a) Russia.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Europe.
(d) Taiwan.
3. When did Sammi ask Hsu if he had heard from Ken?
(a) Tuesday afternoon.
(b) Sunday afternoon.
(c) Monday afternoon.
(d) Wednesday afternoon.
4. What record store did Ken and Hsu go to together early in Part III?
(a) Amoeba.
(b) Wrenner.
(c) Farny.
(d) The Highland.
5. What did Hsu begin to think he could have done that would have changed the outcome the night of Ken's murder?
(a) Gone to the church.
(b) Called his mother.
(c) Gone back to Ken's party.
(d) Gone to the taco restaurant.
6. What did Hsu think all his classes in college taught?
(a) Everything is political.
(b) Reading is essential to success.
(c) Finding your voice is hard.
(d) Another world was once possible.
7. What did Ken get Hsu for a housewarming gift?
(a) A record player.
(b) A fan.
(c) A farming manual.
(d) A modernist clock with no numbers.
8. What dinner at a diner did Hsu and his love interest sometimes eat?
(a) Turkey club sandwiches.
(b) Salad.
(c) Burgers.
(d) French fries and ice cream.
9. Which artist seemed to be on the radio all the time?
(a) Biggy Smalls.
(b) Master P.
(c) Britney Spears.
(d) Better L.
10. What did writing offer to Hsu in the months after Ken's death?
(a) A way of focusing on a movie.
(b) A way of living outside the present.
(c) A way of keeping the story straight.
(d) A way of rewriting history.
11. Who worked with Ken at the same place?
(a) Hsu.
(b) Gwen.
(c) Sammi.
(d) Helena.
12. Who sang "I'll Be Missing You"?
(a) Puff Daddy and Faith Evans.
(b) Mick Jagger.
(c) U2.
(d) Fred Henry.
13. What was the era of martial law called in Taiwan?
(a) The Purge.
(b) The White Terror.
(c) The Lindy Years.
(d) The Fardringham.
14. What did Hsu do the day after Ken died?
(a) Stopped listening to songs from a specific point in his memory.
(b) Stopped eating.
(c) Stopped writing.
(d) Started running.
15. When was Hsu's twenty-first birthday?
(a) Late July.
(b) Late June.
(c) Early August.
(d) Mid-September.
Short Answer Questions
1. What movie did Ken and Hsu watch together when Hsu visited Ken at home?
2. What did it get harder for Hsu to do with his friends as time went on after Ken's death?
3. Who recorded a news segment about Ken's death?
4. Which of Hsu's frat brothers had called the police?
5. What did the owner of the unit where Ken's killers lived say about the man involved?
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