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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bo says that eventually, the land reforms resulted in the deaths of how many people?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 220,000.

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

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

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

5. Bo says that before his final visit to see Bo, Bo's father had given what object to Ma?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) A ring.
(c) A brooch.
(d) A necklace.

6. What type of media is included within Chapter 8 that appears nowhere else in the memoir?
(a) Photography.
(b) A bar graph.
(c) Sheets of music.
(d) Calligraphy.

7. In what level of school is Thi enrolled when she completes an oral history project?
(a) Graduate school.
(b) Undergraduate work.
(c) High school.
(d) Trade school.

8. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1972.

9. Thi makes a point of saying that only when which person had returned to the fold of the family did "order and comfort return" (266)?
(a) Lan.
(b) Bo.
(c) Ma.
(d) Bich.

10. According to Bo, who had accompanied him to see his father in 1954?
(a) Bo's brother.
(b) Bo's grandfather.
(c) Bo's mother.
(d) Bo's grandmother.

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

12. On the first page of Chapter 7: "Heroes and Losers," Bui depicts a famous image of Saigon that includes what form of transportation?
(a) A tank.
(b) A biplane.
(c) A train.
(d) A helicopter.

13. When Bo again lived with his grandmother and grandfather at the age of 14, of what material was their roof made?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Corrugated metal.
(c) Palm leaves.
(d) Canvas.

14. Thi is depicted as trying what kind of juice in Malaysia?
(a) Tomato.
(b) Apple.
(c) Lilac.
(d) Chrysanthemum.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kieu is related to Thi in what way?

3. Bo tells Thi that when he was what age, his grandfather had enrolled Bo in a French school?

4. Who is Hai?

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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