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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 8, entitled "The Shore" begins in what type of setting?
(a) A school.
(b) A meadow.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A beach.

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

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

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

6. What objects do communists call "capitalist filth" (220), according to Ma's instructions?
(a) Books.
(b) Movies.
(c) Television.
(d) Dresses.

7. 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) Throw it away.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Burn it.

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

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

10. Thi mentions that she used to think of her mother as what type of royal family member?
(a) A queen.
(b) A duchess.
(c) A princess.
(d) A dauphine.

11. 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 train.
(b) A helicopter.
(c) A biplane.
(d) A tank.

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

13. Ngo Dinh Diem was the prime minister of what area of Vietnam when he decided to fight the Binh Xuyen?
(a) The North.
(b) The West.
(c) The East.
(d) The South.

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

15. In what country does Ma say she was born?
(a) Korea.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Thailand.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Thi's parents' escape attempt, what happened to the boat?

2. Bui writes that whose "in-laws had found a boat for sale and wanted to escape the country" (227)?

3. Ma shares that she had loved what activity as a child?

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

5. The organizer of Bo and Ma's escape attempt has what name?

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