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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Thi describes the city of Hai Phong by using what noun?
(a) Seaport.
(b) Metropolis.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Oasis.

3. Bo says that when he was how old, his father had fallen in love with a neighbor?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

4. What kind of darkness does Thi remember inside her childhood home?
(a) Soothing.
(b) Ominous.
(c) Claustrophobic.
(d) Stifling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. Chapter 2: "Rewind, Reverse" begins in 2015, but quickly moves to what other year?

4. Bo recalls how in the midst of starvation, his mother had sometimes been able to buy a small piece of what type of meat to share only with Bo?

5. Thi says that Bo had fished for what kind of creatures in his childhood spent in Hai Phong?

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