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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3 begins in what location?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Miami.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Peru.

2. In the panel depicting Thi's family members, Bich says, "It's pronounced" (29) in what way?
(a) Bict.
(b) Bitch.
(c) Beek.
(d) Bick.

3. Ngo Dinh Diem was the prime minister of what area of Vietnam when he decided to fight the Binh Xuyen?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The South.
(d) The West.

4. 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) Beef.
(b) Sausage.
(c) Liverwurst.
(d) Pork.

5. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bo describes the First Indochina War as lasting how long?

3. Bui tells Nguyen that she had done what it took to get out of what California city?

4. What sort of merchant had poisoned the waters near Bo's boyhood home?

5. After moving her own family to be closer to her parents, Thi realizes that what two elements are "not the same" (31)?

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