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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?
2. Throughout the memoir, Bo's grandfather is referred to as what type of gentleman?
3. Transcripts of whose voices formed the foundation of the memoir's creation?
4. Ma alleges that Bo had been taking what action during the birth of one of their children?
5. Bo recalls how in the midst of starvation, his mother had sometimes been able to buy a small piece of what type of meat to share only with Bo?
Short Essay Questions
1. What major change do Thi and Travis undertake in 2006 and why?
2. What is one element of Ma's parenting that Bui depicts as being different for each one of her children?
3. As a young child, Thi imagines the lights of the cars on the highway as what other objects?
4. What event within her adolescence does Thi describe as "living the dream" "for an immigrant kid" (24)?
5. What behavior of Ma's disappoints Thi in the memoir's opening scene?
6. For what reason is Bo unable to teach in the United States, though he had taught in Vietnam?
7. In what time and place does the opening scene of The Best We Could Do begin?
8. What question does Thi ask the doctor when she is in labor with her child?
9. How does Bui incorporate foreshadowing in her creation of The Best We Could Do?
10. For what purpose are allusions to heaven and hell included in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of The Best We Could Do and analyze Bui’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Bui in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Best We Could Do. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Bui’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
What is Bui’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between adult children and their parents?
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