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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?
(a) Tenets.
(b) Laws.
(c) Regulations.
(d) Unwritten rules.

2. A toddler-sized Bo is depicted as thinking, "YOU are not my papa" (115) after what event?
(a) His father becomes a Communist.
(b) His father marries again.
(c) His father beats Bo's mother severely.
(d) His father beats him severely.

3. What two armies forced the Vietnamese people to uproot their rice in order to plant jute?
(a) Korean and Indonesian.
(b) Chinese and Korean.
(c) Chinese and Japanese.
(d) French and Japanese.

4. Thi tells a story about her Bo that involves what kind of body of water in Hai Phong?
(a) A lake.
(b) A marsh.
(c) A bay.
(d) A pond.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thi states in Chapter 2 that she has "figured out, more or less, how to" (29) take what action in regard to her "little family" (29)?

2. Thi recalls that one day her family received a box full of what objects from Vietnam?

3. What kind of darkness does Thi remember inside her childhood home?

4. Bo says that before his final visit to see Bo, Bo's father had given what object to Ma?

5. Thi says that Bo had fished for what kind of creatures in his childhood spent in Hai Phong?

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