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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ma alleges that Bo had been taking what action during the birth of one of their children?
(a) Attending the movies.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Drinking at the bar.

2. Ma's first job in America requires putting what objects together?
(a) Microchips.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Adoptive families.
(d) Circuit boards.

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

4. How many years after Ma's suicide attempt does she bring up the subject with Thi for the first time?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

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

6. What sort of merchant had poisoned the waters near Bo's boyhood home?
(a) A cook.
(b) A washerwoman.
(c) A fisherman.
(d) A fabric dyer.

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

8. Thi says that Bo had fished for what kind of creatures in his childhood spent in Hai Phong?
(a) Catfish.
(b) Crawfish.
(c) Shrimp.
(d) Flounder.

9. What procedure does Bui want to avoid if at all possible during the birth of her son?
(a) An episiotomy.
(b) A repair of a genital tear.
(c) A Caesarean section.
(d) An epidural.

10. Thi states that to understand her father's personality, she needs to understand what happened to him during what time period?
(a) When he was a little boy.
(b) When he was an infant.
(c) When he was a teenager.
(d) When he was a young man.

11. 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)?
(a) Deceive.
(b) Appease.
(c) Raise.
(d) Impress.

12. Bui tells Nguyen that she had gotten good grades and taken what other action in order to get scholarships?
(a) Worked three jobs.
(b) Performed hundreds of hours of community service.
(c) Been the valedictorian of her class.
(d) Run for Class President.

13. Transcripts of whose voices formed the foundation of the memoir's creation?
(a) Bui's aunts and uncles.
(b) Bui's siblings.
(c) Bui's parents.
(d) Bui's grandparents.

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

15. When the nurse brings in a tray of surgical instruments, Bui feels her heart take what action?
(a) Move into her throat.
(b) Go black.
(c) Drop.
(d) Skip a beat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout the memoir, Bo's grandfather is referred to as what type of gentleman?

2. Thi witnesses which person get spat on as he is called a racial slur?

3. After moving her own family to be closer to her parents, Thi realizes that what two elements are "not the same" (31)?

4. What does Bo do while Ma is working at her first job in America?

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

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