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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1963.

2. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?
(a) Ma, Bo, and Lan.
(b) Ma, Lan, and Bich.
(c) Bich and Bo.
(d) Ma and Bo.

3. Bo describes Thai Binh as "deep" what "territory" (164)?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Communist.
(c) Stronghold.
(d) Viet Minh.

4. Who is Travis?
(a) Bui's nephew.
(b) Bui's husband.
(c) Bui's father.
(d) Bui's uncle.

5. Bo tells Thi that when he was what age, his grandfather had enrolled Bo in a French school?
(a) 16.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Ma say she was born?

2. The text states that "an estimated 94,000" soldiers from what country died trying to reclaim their country's colony?

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

4. Thi makes a point of saying that only when which person had returned to the fold of the family did "order and comfort return" (266)?

5. What is the earliest date included on the visual timeline of Vietnam's history that Bui includes before Chapter 1?

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