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

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

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

4. What does the first generation of immigrants often think about?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) Food.
(c) Survival.
(d) Religion.

5. Who did Hsu think Ken resembled?
(a) Brandon Lee.
(b) Michael Stipe.
(c) Richard Wingly.
(d) Henry Cho.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ken and Hsu often do together when they talked privately?

2. Where was Ken's hometown?

3. How did Hsu begin sorting his classmates in his own mind?

4. How did Hsu begin identifying himself in college?

5. What did Hsu argue you make a world out of as a college student?

Short Essay Questions

1. What telos is baked into the immigrant experience, according to Hsu?

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

3. What does Hsu think there is an intimacy in doing with someone else in Part II?

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

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

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

7. How does Hsu describe the content of his zine?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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