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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?
(a) Gold bars.
(b) French currency.
(c) American currency.
(d) Vietnamese currency.

2. Bo and Ma are depicted as hearing via what source that the Khmer Rouge have taken the capital of Cambodia?
(a) Radio.
(b) Television.
(c) Telephone chains.
(d) Secret meetings.

3. Ma flies from California to attend the birth of which of her grandchildren?
(a) Her eighth.
(b) Her third.
(c) Her first.
(d) Her fourth.

4. What procedure does Bui want to avoid if at all possible during the birth of her son?
(a) A repair of a genital tear.
(b) A Caesarean section.
(c) An episiotomy.
(d) An epidural.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bui seeking when she meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen?

2. Thi states in Chapter 2 that she has "figured out, more or less, how to" (29) take what action in regard to her "little family" (29)?

3. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?

4. According to Bo, who had accompanied him to see his father in 1954?

5. Lan had moved out of the family home due to problems with whom?

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