View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bo do while Ma is working at her first job in America?
(a) He puts together circuit boards from home.
(b) He works as a tutor from home.
(c) He hangs out in the backyard.
(d) He stays home with the children.

2. Bui describes her family as fleeing from one country and starting over in another during what decade?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1980s.

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

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

5. The last time Bo saw his mother was in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thi tells a story about her Bo that involves what kind of body of water in Hai Phong?

2. When Chapter 2 begins in 2015, in what California city is it set?

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

4. Ma alleges that Bo had been taking what action during the birth of one of their children?

5. Thi witnesses which person get spat on as he is called a racial slur?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 230 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample