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

2. Who did Hsu live with in his sophomore year of college?
(a) Rob.
(b) Faroh.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Richard.

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

4. What did Ken ask Hsu to do with him soon after they first met?
(a) Shop for clothes.
(b) Cook together.
(c) Loan him money.
(d) Play badminton.

5. How did Hsu begin sorting his classmates in his own mind?
(a) By athletic ability.
(b) By their food preferences.
(c) By their furniture.
(d) By their musical sensibilities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Ken and Hsu often do together when they talked privately?

3. What did Ken try to pull Hsu and his friends into at one point?

4. What did Hsu's parents do for their honeymoon?

5. Where did Hsu grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Hsu describe the content of his zine?

4. How does Hsu describe Ken's personality?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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