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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Bo's father's visit, he told Bo that whose family was "too nguy" for him to "risk being associated" (224) with them?
(a) Lan.
(b) Travis.
(c) Ma.
(d) Tam.

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

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

4. Who helps Ma to avoid the abortion she is technically required to have?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A student.
(c) Ma's mother.
(d) A teacher.

5. Bo is depicted as taking the rest of the family to what type of location after Ma leaves for the hospital?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A refugee camp.
(c) A community center.
(d) A marketplace.

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

7. Bo and Ma are depicted as hearing via what source that the Khmer Rouge have taken the capital of Cambodia?
(a) Television.
(b) Telephone chains.
(c) Radio.
(d) Secret meetings.

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

9. Ma shares that she had loved what activity as a child?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Reading.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. In his youth, Bo dyed his clothes what color in order to "look like a Communist" (155)?

4. Bo states that "The New Economic Zones" (222) were actually what?

5. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?

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