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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kieu is related to Thi in what way?
(a) Sisters.
(b) Aunt and niece.
(c) Sisters-in-law.
(d) Cousins.

3. 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) Tam.
(c) Ma.
(d) Travis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country does Ma say she was born?

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

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

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

5. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Bo's father visits Bo for the first time in 20 years?

2. How does Bui visually depict the many different perspectives about April 30, 1975?

3. In what way did the Communist party leaders use language to mask their true actions?

4. In what year does Bo arrive in Saigon for the first time and to which of Thi's own experiences does she visually compare the moment in Bo's life?

5. How does Bui elicit pathos within Chapter 7, entitled "Heroes and Losers"?

6. One day a box arrives at the Bui home and it is from Vietnam. What is contained inside?

7. What two poses does Thi use to depict her childhood sketches of Ma?

8. What is Thi's hypothesis about why one particular person in her life is difficult for her to write about?

9. What is the meaning of the term "nguy" (221)?

10. What do the glamorous photographs of Ma symbolize to Thi during her childhood?

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