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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3 begins in what location?
(a) Peru.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Miami.

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

3. Lan had moved out of the family home due to problems with whom?
(a) Bich.
(b) Ma.
(c) Thi.
(d) Bo.

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

5. Thi says that the last time Bo saw his mother was during "the height of the" (111) what?
(a) Cold War.
(b) Famine.
(c) The war between China and Japan.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bo says that when he was how old, his father had fallen in love with a neighbor?

2. What sort of merchant had poisoned the waters near Bo's boyhood home?

3. When the nurse brings in a tray of surgical instruments, Bui feels her heart take what action?

4. In what year did Japan send troops to occupy northern French Indochina?

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

(see the answer key)

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