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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bo do while Ma is working at her first job in America?
(a) He works as a tutor from home.
(b) He stays home with the children.
(c) He hangs out in the backyard.
(d) He puts together circuit boards from home.

2. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Los Angeles.

3. In what city do Thi's memories of Bo "live" (64)?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Miami.
(d) New York City.

4. Bui worries most about which aspect of her parenting while she is still in the hospital after having her son?
(a) Washing.
(b) Bonding.
(c) Breast-feeding.
(d) Holding.

5. Bui tells Nguyen that she had done what it took to get out of what California city?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last time Bo saw his mother was in what year?

2. The preface of the graphic memoir is dated July of what year?

3. Once all of Thi's family lives in the same state, where does Ma live?

4. Thi states that her "memories of [Bo] live in" (64) what kind of dwelling?

5. Viet Thanh Nguyen describes Vietnamese refugees in what California city in the 1980s?

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