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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 destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?
(a) Lan.
(b) Ma.
(c) Bo's grandfather.
(d) Bo's grandmother.

2. In what year does Ma say she was born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1962.

3. What happened during the very last time Bo ever saw his mother?
(a) Bo's mother crossed the border into China.
(b) Bo's grandfather beat up Bo's grandmother.
(c) Bo's mother kissed him goodbye and told him to be good.
(d) Bo's father beat up his mother and threw her out.

4. The text states that "an estimated 94,000" soldiers from what country died trying to reclaim their country's colony?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

5. What is Bo's reply when Ma tells him that she had been given a particular object by Bo's father?
(a) Sell it.
(b) Crush it.
(c) Throw it away.
(d) Burn it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Travis?

2. According to Bo, who had accompanied him to see his father in 1954?

3. Thi is depicted as trying what kind of juice in Malaysia?

4. In what country does Ma say she was born?

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

(see the answer key)

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