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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The action Bui's heart takes when she sees the surgical instrument is the same she remembers from a time when Bo had talked openly about what subject?
(a) Sex.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) Rape.
(d) Defection.

2. What sort of merchant had poisoned the waters near Bo's boyhood home?
(a) A cook.
(b) A fabric dyer.
(c) A washerwoman.
(d) A fisherman.

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

4. Bui names Viet Thanh Nguyen as the winner of what sort of award?
(a) An Emmy.
(b) A Pulitzer.
(c) An Oscar.
(d) A Tony.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Travis?

2. What two words does Ma say when Bui announces that she and her boyfriend are going to live together?

3. 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?

4. What two armies forced the Vietnamese people to uproot their rice in order to plant jute?

5. With what assessment of Ma's does Bo disagree in Chapter 3?

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