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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 Hsu spend a lot of time doing his first few weeks at college?
(a) Volunteering.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Going to parties.
(d) Cooking.

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

3. When did Kurt Cobain die?
(a) April 1994.
(b) March 2009.
(c) January 1998.
(d) May 2000.

4. What was a drag to Hsu and his friends in college?
(a) The future.
(b) The present.
(c) The past.
(d) Protesting.

5. Where did Hsu's father move when he was a teenager?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Hong Kong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motivated Hsu to start his zine at first?

2. Where did Hsu's parents first meet?

3. What did Ken ask Hsu to do with him soon after they first met?

4. What did pictures become evidence of when photography became ubiquitous, according to Hsu?

5. How did Hsu's father refer to his zine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hsu describe Ken's personality?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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