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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. To what state does Thi's family go when they leave the Midwest?
(a) Florida.
(b) California.
(c) Maine.
(d) Oregon.

3. Thi states, "My family kept" what kinds of "records of our existence" (296)?
(a) Sparse.
(b) Many.
(c) Endless.
(d) Few.

4. What items are described as having been too expensive for inclusion in the important documents container?
(a) Senior pictures.
(b) Class pictures.
(c) Professional pictures.
(d) Individual school pictures.

5. According to Bo, who had accompanied him to see his father in 1954?
(a) Bo's grandfather.
(b) Bo's brother.
(c) Bo's grandmother.
(d) Bo's mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Bui states in the Preface that she helped to open what sort of high school?

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

5. In what year does Ma say she was born?

(see the answer key)

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