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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hsu's parents do for their honeymoon?
(a) Went back to Taiwan.
(b) Took a road trip.
(c) Went to Germany.
(d) Went to Paris.

2. What did Hsu desperately want to be the type of person to do?
(a) Be able to look effortlessly vague.
(b) Cook well.
(c) Understand poetry.
(d) Be able to compete in athletics.

3. What felt intrusive to everyday life when Hsu was in college?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Windows.
(c) Cameras.
(d) Books.

4. Where does Hsu go to college?
(a) University of North Carolina.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) George Washington University.
(d) Tufts.

5. What did Hsu refer to as the "unreachable horizon of modern life" in speaking about the work of Charles Taylor?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Authenticity.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Ken's father do?

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

4. What does the first generation of immigrants often think about?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hsu realize he and his parents are doing at the same time?

2. What potentially dangerous thing do Hsu and his friends help Ken do in Part II?

3. What is Hsu's first impression of Ken?

4. How does Hsu describe Ken's personality?

5. What do the first and second generations of immigrants think about, according to Hsu?

6. What does Hsu later realize Ken is doing when they talk about pop culture and Asian American characters on television and in movies?

7. Who does Hsu live with during his sophomore year of college?

8. Why does Hsu's father move back to Taiwan?

9. What is Ken really disappointed a former girlfriend of his says to him, as he relates it to Hsu?

10. What philosopher influences Hsu's thinking on friendship in Part II?

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