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

2. What did Ken and Hsu often do together when they talked privately?
(a) Ate.
(b) Danced.
(c) Sang.
(d) Smoked.

3. Where does Hsu's father first go to college in America?
(a) University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Amherst.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Hsu's roommates early in college?

2. Why did Hsu think some Californians grew up with a sense of entitlement?

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

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

5. Who did Hsu think Ken resembled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hsu's family buy when his father moves to Taiwan and why?

2. What habit do Ken and Hsu take up together?

3. Which "alternative" rock band does Hsu fall in love with in high school?

4. What does Ken as the "Real World" producer?

5. What does Hsu's father help him with from Taiwan?

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

7. How do Hsu's parents first meet?

8. Where does the title of this memoir come from?

9. What does Ken ask Hsu to help him with early in their relationship?

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

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