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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) Loan him money.
(b) Cook together.
(c) Play badminton.
(d) Shop for clothes.

2. Hsu wrote that there are many different types of which of the following in friendship?
(a) Currencies.
(b) Placations.
(c) Vulnerabilities.
(d) Collages.

3. What was Ken part of that Hsu sometimes looked down his nose at?
(a) A music club.
(b) A magician's club.
(c) A freemason's group.
(d) A fraternity.

4. What did Hsu think Ken projected?
(a) Talent.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Sweetness.

5. What did pictures become evidence of when photography became ubiquitous, according to Hsu?
(a) That you existed at all.
(b) That you were sorry.
(c) That you had friends.
(d) That you were wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industry boomed in Taiwan in the early 1990s?

2. What did Hsu's mother once place an ad in the paper for?

3. What film did Chris Marker make that Hsu loved?

4. What did Hsu refer to as the "unreachable horizon of modern life" in speaking about the work of Charles Taylor?

5. What did Hsu and his peers soon lose their relationship to in their sophomore year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Hsu's mother once advertise as a service when he is a child?

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

7. What does Hsu say there is no such thing as spending too much time in in Part I?

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

9. What art form does Hsu often connect to people through?

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

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