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

2. 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) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member of Ma's was the one to act as a United State sponsors for Ma's immediate family?

2. Ma says that her father had been a what?

3. Who helps Ma to avoid the abortion she is technically required to have?

4. Hai and Bo took what action to keep Hai's children quiet as the patrol boats passed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the origins of Bui's memoir The Best We Could Do.

2. What objects must the Bui family burn when the Communists begin to search the people's homes?

3. How is the motherhood archetype portrayed within Chapter 7, entitled "Heroes and Losers"?

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

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

6. For what specific purpose does Bui depict Ma's dedication to her children?

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

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

9. What objects do the Communists consider to be "capitalist filth" (220)?

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

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