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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. In what dyamic are immigrants often discussed?
(a) Febrile.
(b) Push-and-pull.
(c) Liminal.
(d) Tensile.

2. What did Hsu think people are certain of when they are young?
(a) Their own egos.
(b) Their parents' love.
(c) Their talents.
(d) Their ability to imagine themselves a way out of the previous generation's problems.

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

4. What kind of car did Hsu have?
(a) Volvo.
(b) Hyundai.
(c) Chevy.
(d) Corvette.

5. What did Hsu's father always ask him after he moved away in their correspondence?
(a) How much money he was making.
(b) What color the river was.
(c) What he thought of everything.
(d) How his mother was.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ken's hometown?

2. What city was not far enough away for Hsu from Cupertino to go to college?

3. Where does Hsu's father first go to college in America?

4. What did Hsu's mother's father write on a chalboard every day?

5. What did Hsu say youth is a pursuit of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do Hsu's parents first meet?

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

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

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

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

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

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