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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?
(a) Bo's grandmother's.
(b) The prime minister's.
(c) Bo's grandfather's.
(d) Bo's uncle's.

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

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

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

5. What kind of darkness does Thi remember inside her childhood home?
(a) Soothing.
(b) Ominous.
(c) Claustrophobic.
(d) Stifling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Thi feel when Ma brings up her own past suicide attempt?

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

3. The Bui family's "neighborhood monitor" (221) is also referred to by what term?

4. In what level of school is Thi enrolled when she completes an oral history project?

5. Bui tells Nguyen that she had gotten good grades and taken what other action in order to get scholarships?

(see the answer key)

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