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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Ma to avoid the abortion she is technically required to have?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A student.
(c) Ma's mother.
(d) A doctor.

2. When Bo's father came to visit Bo, it had been how many years since they had seen one another?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

3. The text states that "an estimated 94,000" soldiers from what country died trying to reclaim their country's colony?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

4. Speaking about her mother, Ma says, "I hated it when my mother" (142) took what action?
(a) Hit the servants.
(b) Had parties.
(c) Left her alone in the house.
(d) Went to bed for days.

5. Hai and Bo took what action to keep Hai's children quiet as the patrol boats passed?
(a) They gagged the children.
(b) They threatened the children with violence.
(c) They blindfolded the children.
(d) They injected the children with Valium.

6. Who is Hai?
(a) Ma's brother.
(b) Bo's brother.
(c) Bich's husband.
(d) Ma's cousin.

7. Which family member of Ma's was the one to act as a United State sponsors for Ma's immediate family?
(a) Her niece.
(b) Her older sister.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her younger sister.

8. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?
(a) French currency.
(b) Vietnamese currency.
(c) Gold bars.
(d) American currency.

9. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?
(a) Bich and Bo.
(b) Ma, Lan, and Bich.
(c) Ma and Bo.
(d) Ma, Bo, and Lan.

10. Bo states that when the French lost the Indochina War, it had what effect on him?
(a) He could no longer pursue his education.
(b) Many of his family members were killed.
(c) His grandfather was killed.
(d) His school closed down.

11. The destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?
(a) Lan.
(b) Ma.
(c) Bo's grandmother.
(d) Bo's grandfather.

12. In what year does Ma say she was born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1943.

13. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?
(a) Poor.
(b) Immigrant.
(c) Boat.
(d) American.

14. When the South Vietnamese withdrew, the people in what area were advised to evacuate?
(a) The Northern Highlands.
(b) The Eastern Lowlands.
(c) The Western Lowlands.
(d) The Central Highlands.

15. Bui writes that whose "in-laws had found a boat for sale and wanted to escape the country" (227)?
(a) Lan's.
(b) Hang's.
(c) Kieu's.
(d) Hai's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?

2. Thi depicts Ma's devotion to her children by showing Ma peeling what type of fruit?

3. Ma says that she stayed in what types of schools throughout her "entire education" (140)?

4. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?

5. Thi compares her excitement upon arriving in what city for the first time to Bo's excitement when he first arrived in Saigon?

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