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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. In what year does Thi move with her husband and son from New York City to a new place?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1999.

2. What two words does Ma say when Bui announces that she and her boyfriend are going to live together?
(a) No way.
(b) I see.
(c) Not yet.
(d) Please no.

3. What emotion does Thi feel when Ma brings up her own past suicide attempt?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Fear.
(d) Empathy.

4. Chapter 1, entitled "Labor," takes place in what location?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) San Diego.
(c) New York.
(d) Miami.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what state do Thi and her family move in an effort to be emotionally closer to her parents?

3. 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?

4. Thi states that her parents had escaped from Vietnam by using what form of transport?

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

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