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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many young children are still in the home when Bo takes over most of the parenting?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

3. Ma flies from California to attend the birth of which of her grandchildren?
(a) Her third.
(b) Her first.
(c) Her eighth.
(d) Her fourth.

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

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

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. How old was Thi when her parents separated?
(a) 21.
(b) 7.
(c) 19.
(d) 13.

8. When Chapter 2 begins in 2015, in what California city is it set?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Santa Clara.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Berkeley.

9. What two words does Ma say when Bui announces that she and her boyfriend are going to live together?
(a) Not yet.
(b) I see.
(c) No way.
(d) Please no.

10. Thi describes the city of Hai Phong by using what noun?
(a) Oasis.
(b) Metropolis.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Seaport.

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

12. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

13. A toddler-sized Bo is depicted as thinking, "YOU are not my papa" (115) after what event?
(a) His father becomes a Communist.
(b) His father marries again.
(c) His father beats him severely.
(d) His father beats Bo's mother severely.

14. Bui describes her family as fleeing from one country and starting over in another during what decade?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1950s.

15. 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) Bonding.
(d) Breast-feeding.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Thi states that her "memories of [Bo] live in" (64) what kind of dwelling?

4. As a child, Thi imagined herself and her family becoming "a little more" (65) what each day?

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

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