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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is the only child of Bo and Ma when people start to say that Saigon will "become a sea of blood" (214)?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 3 months.

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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 beaten Bo severely.
(c) He had been unfaithful.
(d) He had spent her savings.

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

9. In what year did Bo arrive in Saigon for the first time?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1955.

10. Thi says that Ma's friends would often tell Thi that she looked like her mother, "but not as" (132) what?
(a) Gracious.
(b) Mature.
(c) Pretty.
(d) Fashionable.

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

12. Bo tells Thi that when he was what age, his grandfather had enrolled Bo in a French school?
(a) 16.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

13. Thi includes a portrait of her mother that Thi had drawn at what age?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

14. Bo describes the First Indochina War as lasting how long?
(a) A decade.
(b) Decades.
(c) A lifetime.
(d) A century.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?

2. In what year did Bo's father visit, "bringing news from the North" (223)?

3. The Bui family's "neighborhood monitor" (221) is also referred to by what term?

4. Thi recalls that one day her family received a box full of what objects from Vietnam?

5. How many months' pregnant was Ma when she and Bo planned their escape?

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