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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thi describes her mother's scent by using the name of what brand?
(a) Dove.
(b) Jean Nate.
(c) Baby powder.
(d) Oil of Olay.

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

3. The Bui family's "neighborhood monitor" (221) is also referred to by what term?
(a) The cadre.
(b) The general.
(c) The commander.
(d) The magistrate.

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

5. What is Bo's reply when Ma tells him that she had been given a particular object by Bo's father?
(a) Crush it.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Throw it away.
(d) Burn it.

6. Thi recalls that one day her family received a box full of what objects from Vietnam?
(a) Documents.
(b) Records.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Letters.

7. Thi depicts Ma's devotion to her children by showing Ma peeling what type of fruit?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Plums.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Peaches.

8. Ma says that she stayed in what types of schools throughout her "entire education" (140)?
(a) Vietnamese.
(b) Korean.
(c) Public.
(d) French.

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

10. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?
(a) His teacher.
(b) His school principal.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

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

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

13. What action had Bo's grandfather taken in relation to Bo's grandmother just before she had left forever?
(a) He had beaten her severely.
(b) He had been unfaithful.
(c) He had beaten Bo severely.
(d) He had spent her savings.

14. Ma says that her father had been a what?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A general.
(d) A civil engineer.

15. During Thi's parents' escape attempt, what happened to the boat?
(a) It hit a river island.
(b) It hit a rocky shore.
(c) It caught fire.
(d) It sank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bo explains that the term "nguy" (221) could be applied to anyone in what location?

2. When the South Vietnamese withdrew, the people in what area were advised to evacuate?

3. Bo explains that "Saigon had its own" what called "the Binh Xuyen" (176)?

4. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?

5. How old is the only child of Bo and Ma when people start to say that Saigon will "become a sea of blood" (214)?

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