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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective does Thi use to describe the "demons" (68) from her parents' pasts that had haunted Thi's childhood home?
(a) Unexorcised.
(b) Relentless.
(c) Deceptive.
(d) Evil.

2. How old was Thi when her parents separated?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 13.
(d) 7.

3. When Chapter 2 begins in 2015, in what California city is it set?
(a) San Jose.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Santa Clara.
(d) Berkeley.

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

5. What source does Thi NOT name among her childhood sources of knowledge about America?
(a) Books.
(b) Television.
(c) Her sisters' attendance of school.
(d) Ma's citizenship class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once all of Thi's family lives in the same state, where does Ma live?

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

3. The city of Hai Phong is how far away from the border of China?

4. Ma flies from California to attend the birth of which of her grandchildren?

5. 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?

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