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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 city did Hsu mostly live in with his parents?
(a) Farmingham.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Cupertino.
(d) Atlanta.

2. How did Hsu's father refer to his zine?
(a) As his pet project.
(b) As his stone.
(c) As his thesis.
(d) As his publications.

3. Which flea market did Hsu sometimes like to frequent?
(a) Marway.
(b) Feathering.
(c) Ringold.
(d) Ashby.

4. What did Hsu's mother's father write on a chalboard every day?
(a) A drawing.
(b) A poem.
(c) A recipe.
(d) A new word in English.

5. What did one of Ken's former girlfriends tell him that he thought was terrible, and he related to Hsu?
(a) She never voted.
(b) Her life had always been a dream.
(c) She hated diversity.
(d) She always ate takeout.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Hsu and his friends sometimes seek in their first year of college?

4. What was a drag to Hsu and his friends in college?

5. What had Hsu never touched before college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do Hsu's parents first meet?

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

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

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

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

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