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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the preface of The Best We Could Do, Bui states that the "seeds of this book were planted" in what year?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1996.

3. Bo says that eventually, the land reforms resulted in the deaths of how many people?
(a) 220,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. Thi tells a story about her Bo that involves what kind of body of water in Hai Phong?
(a) A pond.
(b) A lake.
(c) A bay.
(d) A marsh.

5. With what assessment of Ma's does Bo disagree in Chapter 3?
(a) That Bo was not present at Tam's birth.
(b) That Bo was not present at Bich's birth.
(c) That Bo was not present at Ma's fortieth birthday party.
(d) That Bo was not present at Lan's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects do communists call "capitalist filth" (220), according to Ma's instructions?

2. Bo states that when the French lost the Indochina War, it had what effect on him?

3. In what year did Japan send troops to occupy northern French Indochina?

4. What kind of darkness does Thi remember inside her childhood home?

5. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?

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