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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Hsu spent a lot of time as a teenager?
2. Where did Hsu's parents first meet?
3. What did Hsu think his parents craved?
4. Hsu wrote that there are many different types of which of the following in friendship?
5. What did Ken ask Hsu to do with him soon after they first met?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the title of this memoir come from?
2. What does Hsu's family buy when his father moves to Taiwan and why?
3. What does Hsu realize he and his parents are doing at the same time?
4. What does Hsu's mother once advertise as a service when he is a child?
5. What does Hsu later realize Ken is doing when they talk about pop culture and Asian American characters on television and in movies?
6. What does Hsu say there is no such thing as spending too much time in in Part I?
7. What does Hsu's father help him with from Taiwan?
8. What does Ken ask Hsu to help him with early in their relationship?
9. How do Hsu's parents first meet?
10. How does Hsu describe the content of his zine?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are Derrida's main points about friendship and how does Hsu interpret and relate to them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Hsu's father's move to Taiwan when Hsu is still in adolescence affect their relationship? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
What does Hsu make of the protest movements on campus at Berkeley, including and particularly those that deal with racial inequality? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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