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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Thi and Travis's child must stay in the hospital after Thi is discharged, where does the couple stay?
(a) In a room inside the hospital.
(b) At the home of a friend down the street from the hospital.
(c) In a room across the street from the hospital.
(d) In their car down the street from the hospital.

2. Bo says that eventually, the land reforms resulted in the deaths of how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 220,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 50,000.

3. Thi recalls that which person had talked more openly with Travis than she had with Thi?
(a) Lan.
(b) Ma.
(c) Bich.
(d) Bo.

4. How many months' pregnant was Ma when she and Bo planned their escape?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. Thi uses the last line of the memoir to state that she thinks "maybe" who "can be free" (329)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What objects do communists call "capitalist filth" (220), according to Ma's instructions?

3. In his youth, Bo dyed his clothes what color in order to "look like a Communist" (155)?

4. On the first page of Chapter 7: "Heroes and Losers," Bui depicts a famous image of Saigon that includes what form of transportation?

5. In what year did Lan graduate from high school?

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