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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What source does Thi NOT name among her childhood sources of knowledge about America?
(a) Books.
(b) Her sisters' attendance of school.
(c) Television.
(d) Ma's citizenship class.

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

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

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

5. What does Bo do while Ma is working at her first job in America?
(a) He puts together circuit boards from home.
(b) He stays home with the children.
(c) He works as a tutor from home.
(d) He hangs out in the backyard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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) 740 B.C.
(c) 111 B.C.
(d) 1345 A.D.

13. Once all of Thi's family lives in the same state, where does Ma live?
(a) In Thi's backyard.
(b) In Bich's guest house.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) In Tam's backyard.

14. 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) Beef.
(c) Sausage.
(d) Pork.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what state do Thi and her family move in an effort to be emotionally closer to her parents?

2. What "immense" (22) emotion does Bui feel after giving birth to her son?

3. What sort of merchant had poisoned the waters near Bo's boyhood home?

4. In what year does Thi move with her husband and son from New York City to a new place?

5. Transcripts of whose voices formed the foundation of the memoir's creation?

(see the answer keys)

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