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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Bui family's "neighborhood monitor" (221) is also referred to by what term?
(a) The magistrate.
(b) The general.
(c) The commander.
(d) The cadre.

3. Bo states that when the French lost the Indochina War, it had what effect on him?
(a) His grandfather was killed.
(b) Many of his family members were killed.
(c) He could no longer pursue his education.
(d) His school closed down.

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

5. How many months' pregnant was Ma when she and Bo planned their escape?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

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

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

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

10. What action had Bo's grandfather taken in relation to Bo's grandmother just before she had left forever?
(a) He had been unfaithful.
(b) He had beaten Bo severely.
(c) He had beaten her severely.
(d) He had spent her savings.

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

12. 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) Ma and Bo.
(c) Ma, Lan, and Bich.
(d) Bich and Bo.

13. What constant within society does Thi had "riled [Ma] up" (225)?
(a) Neighborhood meetings.
(b) Work shortages.
(c) Famine.
(d) Surveillance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thi is depicted as trying what kind of juice in Malaysia?

2. The destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?

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

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

5. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?

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