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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Thi depicts Ma's devotion to her children by showing Ma peeling what type of fruit?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Plums.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Grapes.

5. When the South Vietnamese withdrew, the people in what area were advised to evacuate?
(a) The Western Lowlands.
(b) The Central Highlands.
(c) The Northern Highlands.
(d) The Eastern Lowlands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Bo describes Thai Binh as "deep" what "territory" (164)?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Communist.
(c) Stronghold.
(d) Viet Minh.

13. Bo describes the "land reforms" (169) as a "process of" (169) as taking what action in relation to society?
(a) Strengthening it.
(b) Destroying it.
(c) Reorganizing it.
(d) Uniting it.

14. Thi recalls that which person had talked more openly with Travis than she had with Thi?
(a) Bich.
(b) Bo.
(c) Lan.
(d) Ma.

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

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

3. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?

4. Thi compares her excitement upon arriving in what city for the first time to Bo's excitement when he first arrived in Saigon?

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

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