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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. What is Bui seeking when she meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen?
(a) Answers.
(b) Peace.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Wisdom.

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

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

4. After moving her own family to be closer to her parents, Thi realizes that what two elements are "not the same" (31)?
(a) Beauty and wisdom.
(b) Safety and security.
(c) Proximity and closeness.
(d) Nostalgia and memory.

5. Ma flies from California to attend the birth of which of her grandchildren?
(a) Her first.
(b) Her fourth.
(c) Her third.
(d) Her eighth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lan had moved out of the family home due to problems with whom?

2. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?

3. In what year does Thi move with her husband and son from New York City to a new place?

4. Who is Travis?

5. Bui worries most about which aspect of her parenting while she is still in the hospital after having her son?

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