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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ma.
(b) Bich.
(c) Lan.
(d) Bo.

2. How old was Bo when he went to see his father in the North?
(a) 21.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 19.

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

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

5. What is NOT a meaning of the word "nguy" (221) according to Bo?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) False.
(c) Manipulative.
(d) Lying.

6. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?
(a) Regulations.
(b) Tenets.
(c) Unwritten rules.
(d) Laws.

7. How many pages of strictly visual images does Bui use to depict the stars the night of the escape?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

8. Thi compares her excitement upon arriving in what city for the first time to Bo's excitement when he first arrived in Saigon?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) New York City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

9. In what year did Bo's father visit, "bringing news from the North" (223)?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1981.

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

11. Bo states that "The New Economic Zones" (222) were actually what?
(a) Concentration camps.
(b) Slums.
(c) Labor camps.
(d) Marshes.

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

13. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?
(a) Bich.
(b) Lan.
(c) Bo.
(d) Ma.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?

2. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?

3. Who is Hai?

4. Who helps Ma to avoid the abortion she is technically required to have?

5. Ma says that her mother had taken what action whenever Thi had climbed into her lap?

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