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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1975.

2. What is Bo's reply when Ma tells him that she had been given a particular object by Bo's father?
(a) Throw it away.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Crush it.

3. Bo recalls how in the midst of starvation, his mother had sometimes been able to buy a small piece of what type of meat to share only with Bo?
(a) Sausage.
(b) Pork.
(c) Liverwurst.
(d) Beef.

4. Bo explains that the term "nguy" (221) could be applied to anyone in what location?
(a) In the North.
(b) In the West.
(c) In the East.
(d) In the South.

5. How many pages of strictly visual images does Bui use to depict the stars the night of the escape?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?

2. What kind of darkness does Thi remember inside her childhood home?

3. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?

4. Thi mentions that she used to think of her mother as what type of royal family member?

5. The destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?

(see the answer key)

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