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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective does Thi use to describe the "demons" (68) from her parents' pasts that had haunted Thi's childhood home?
(a) Unexorcised.
(b) Evil.
(c) Deceptive.
(d) Relentless.

2. 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) Liverwurst.
(b) Sausage.
(c) Beef.
(d) Pork.

3. To what state do Thi and her family move in an effort to be emotionally closer to her parents?
(a) Maine.
(b) California.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Florida.

4. When Bui feels a particular emotion after the birth of her son, a "wave of" (22) what emotion for Ma washes over her?
(a) Anger.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Sadness.

5. What is the earliest date included on the visual timeline of Vietnam's history that Bui includes before Chapter 1?
(a) 740 B.C.
(b) 111 B.C.
(c) 354 A.D.
(d) 1345 A.D.

6. The action Bui's heart takes when she sees the surgical instrument is the same she remembers from a time when Bo had talked openly about what subject?
(a) American soldiers.
(b) Defection.
(c) Rape.
(d) Sex.

7. In what year did Japan send troops to occupy northern French Indochina?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1939.

8. Bui worries most about which aspect of her parenting while she is still in the hospital after having her son?
(a) Washing.
(b) Holding.
(c) Breast-feeding.
(d) Bonding.

9. What is Bui seeking when she meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen?
(a) Answers.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Peace.

10. Chapter 2: "Rewind, Reverse" begins in 2015, but quickly moves to what other year?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2006.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1999.

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

12. Thi states that her parents had escaped from Vietnam by using what form of transport?
(a) A plane.
(b) A train.
(c) A boat.
(d) A bus.

13. Lan had moved out of the family home due to problems with whom?
(a) Bo.
(b) Bich.
(c) Thi.
(d) Ma.

14. The preface of the graphic memoir is dated July of what year?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2014.

15. Thi states that her "memories of [Bo] live in" (64) what kind of dwelling?
(a) An apartment building.
(b) A park.
(c) A grocery store.
(d) A bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1, entitled "Labor," takes place in what location?

2. Chapter 3 begins in what location?

3. Thi and her siblings go to bed at what time every night while under the care of Bo?

4. Ma alleges that Bo had been taking what action during the birth of one of their children?

5. Ma's first job in America requires putting what objects together?

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