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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Travis?
(a) Bui's uncle.
(b) Bui's husband.
(c) Bui's nephew.
(d) Bui's father.

2. Thi says that Bo had fished for what kind of creatures in his childhood spent in Hai Phong?
(a) Crawfish.
(b) Shrimp.
(c) Catfish.
(d) Flounder.

3. When Bich runs away from home, Ma takes what action?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She disowns Bich.
(c) She slaps Lan.
(d) She attempts suicide.

4. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?
(a) His school principal.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

5. Bo describes the "land reforms" (169) as a "process of" (169) as taking what action in relation to society?
(a) Uniting it.
(b) Destroying it.
(c) Strengthening it.
(d) Reorganizing it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bo says that when he was how old, his father had fallen in love with a neighbor?

2. When Bui feels a particular emotion after the birth of her son, a "wave of" (22) what emotion for Ma washes over her?

3. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?

4. What is the earliest date included on the visual timeline of Vietnam's history that Bui includes before Chapter 1?

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

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