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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 and Hsu often do together when they talked privately?
(a) Danced.
(b) Ate.
(c) Smoked.
(d) Sang.

2. What did Hsu's mother once place an ad in the paper for?
(a) Advertising seamstress services.
(b) Advertising Chinese cooking lessons.
(c) Advertising Chinese tutoring.
(d) Advertising pets for sale.

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

4. Which show's producer came to campus one semester?
(a) In Living Color.
(b) Cops.
(c) Missing.
(d) The Real World.

5. What motivated Hsu to start his zine at first?
(a) Getting free food.
(b) Getting into college.
(c) Getting free clohtes.
(d) Getting free CDs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first generation of immigrants often think about?

2. What felt intrusive to everyday life when Hsu was in college?

3. What does Ken make that Hsu wonders how he knows to make?

4. What did Hsu think of Ken when he first met Ken?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Hsu realize he and his parents are doing at the same time?

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

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

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

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