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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 epidural.
(d) An episiotomy.

3. Viet Thanh Nguyen describes Vietnamese refugees in what California city in the 1980s?
(a) San Jose.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Oakland.
(d) San Francisco.

4. Thi uses the last line of the memoir to state that she thinks "maybe" who "can be free" (329)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her father.

5. Throughout the memoir, Bo's grandfather is referred to as what type of gentleman?
(a) Careful.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Dapper.
(d) Leisurely.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location does Tam hide when things are tense in the house?

2. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?

3. Chapter 10 takes place in what location?

4. In what season does Thi's family leave the Midwest in Chapter 9, "Fire and Ash"?

5. During Bo's father's visit, he told Bo that whose family was "too nguy" for him to "risk being associated" (224) with them?

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