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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is the only child of Bo and Ma when people start to say that Saigon will "become a sea of blood" (214)?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 3 years.

3. Ma shares that she had loved what activity as a child?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Cooking.

4. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?
(a) Bo.
(b) Ma.
(c) Bich.
(d) Lan.

5. Bo recalls how in the midst of starvation, his mother had sometimes been able to buy a small piece of what type of meat to share only with Bo?
(a) Pork.
(b) Liverwurst.
(c) Beef.
(d) Sausage.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?

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

3. 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)?

4. What adjective does Thi use to describe the "demons" (68) from her parents' pasts that had haunted Thi's childhood home?

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

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