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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bui describes her family as fleeing from one country and starting over in another during what decade?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1950s.

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)?
(a) Appease.
(b) Deceive.
(c) Raise.
(d) Impress.

3. Chapter 2: "Rewind, Reverse" begins in 2015, but quickly moves to what other year?
(a) 1987.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1999.

4. Who is the oldest of Bui's sisters?
(a) Bo.
(b) Lan.
(c) Bich.
(d) Thanh.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words does Ma say when Bui announces that she and her boyfriend are going to live together?

2. The preface of the graphic memoir is dated July of what year?

3. When Bui feels a particular emotion after the birth of her son, a "wave of" (22) what emotion for Ma washes over her?

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

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

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