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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 worries most about which aspect of her parenting while she is still in the hospital after having her son?
(a) Washing.
(b) Breast-feeding.
(c) Bonding.
(d) Holding.

2. The action Bui's heart takes when she sees the surgical instrument is the same she remembers from a time when Bo had talked openly about what subject?
(a) American soldiers.
(b) Rape.
(c) Sex.
(d) Defection.

3. Who is Travis?
(a) Bui's uncle.
(b) Bui's husband.
(c) Bui's father.
(d) Bui's nephew.

4. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. 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) Impress.
(d) Raise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Transcripts of whose voices formed the foundation of the memoir's creation?

2. How many years after Ma's suicide attempt does she bring up the subject with Thi for the first time?

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

4. What procedure does Bui want to avoid if at all possible during the birth of her son?

5. What emotion does Thi feel when Ma brings up her own past suicide attempt?

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