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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Hai and Bo took what action to keep Hai's children quiet as the patrol boats passed?
(a) They gagged the children.
(b) They threatened the children with violence.
(c) They injected the children with Valium.
(d) They blindfolded the children.

5. Which family member of Ma's was the one to act as a United State sponsors for Ma's immediate family?
(a) Her niece.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her older sister.
(d) Her younger sister.

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

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

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

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

10. Seats on the escape boat are described as being "bought in" what "or in promises of repayment" (229)?
(a) Vietnamese currency.
(b) Gold bars.
(c) French currency.
(d) American currency.

11. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1979.

12. In his youth, Bo dyed his clothes what color in order to "look like a Communist" (155)?
(a) Black.
(b) Pink.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

13. Bo names which person as providing him with the necessary documents to transfer to a school in Saigon?
(a) His father.
(b) His school principal.
(c) His teacher.
(d) His grandfather.

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

15. The organizer of Bo and Ma's escape attempt has what name?
(a) Mr. Chau.
(b) Mr. Son.
(c) Mrs. Kieu.
(d) Mr. Dien.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?

4. Bo describes Thai Binh as "deep" what "territory" (164)?

5. Bo explains that the term "nguy" (221) could be applied to anyone in what location?

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