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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what level of school is Thi enrolled when she completes an oral history project?
(a) High school.
(b) Graduate school.
(c) Trade school.
(d) Undergraduate work.

2. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?
(a) His school principal.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

3. Chapter 2: "Rewind, Reverse" begins in 2015, but quickly moves to what other year?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1987.

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

5. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1, entitled "Labor," takes place in what location?

2. As a child, Thi imagined herself and her family becoming "a little more" (65) what each day?

3. Thi describes the city of Hai Phong by using what noun?

4. In what city do Thi's memories of Bo "live" (64)?

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

(see the answer key)

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