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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year does Ma say she was born?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1943.

3. As a child, Thi imagined herself and her family becoming "a little more" (65) what each day?
(a) Prosperous.
(b) American.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Assimilated.

4. What movie does Thi recall watching at the age of 5?
(a) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
(b) The Godfather.
(c) The Exorcist.
(d) A Nightmare on Elm Street.

5. Bo tells Thi that when he was what age, his grandfather had enrolled Bo in a French school?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Bui family's "neighborhood monitor" (221) is also referred to by what term?

2. Thi describes "the first week of" what as "the hardest week of [her] life" (312)?

3. In what year did Japan send troops to "block Chinese supply routes" (102)?

4. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?

5. When Thi speaks to her child for the first time, she speaks in what language?

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