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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days worth of water does Anh Phuoc tell Mai and Quyen they have on the boat when he gives water to Truong in the pilothouse?
(a) 7.
(b) 14.
(c) 0.
(d) 2.

2. What does Mayako believe in from her father’s stories, which Big Sister tells her is foolish?
(a) God.
(b) Tree spirits.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Fairies.

3. Who does Sarah assure Parvin she will not make her talk about even though Parvin had asked her to talk about?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Roya.
(c) Paul.
(d) Mahmoud.

4. Where did Quyen tell Mai Truong’s father had escaped to an awaited them?
(a) Pulau Besar.
(b) Australia.
(c) Pulau Tengah.
(d) Pulau Bidong.

5. Why did Quyen take Truong to escape with her?
(a) She wanted him to meet her husband.
(b) She did not want to leave him to Communists.
(c) She did not trust her aunt.
(d) She wanted company.

6. What group does Mayako’s sister allow her to join, which they keep a secret from their mother?
(a) The Peace Corps.
(b) Volunteer Corps.
(c) The Emperor’s Corps.
(d) The Imperial Corps.

7. What did Mai sell in order to support her family?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Rice.
(d) Herbs.

8. What does Mayako’s mother tell her she used to be able to do where she lived when she was a child?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Play with her friends.
(c) Jump in the river.
(d) Eat candy.

9. When does Sarah feel was the only time she was ever happy?
(a) Eating dinner with Paul.
(b) Working at the law firm.
(c) Swimming in the local pool before work.
(d) Talking with Parvin.

10. What type of music did Mayako’s mother and father see and hear on their first date?
(a) Choir.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Folk.
(d) Pop.

11. When did Parvin move from Iran to Europe?
(a) In her 20s.
(b) Just after college.
(c) When she was a baby.
(d) When she was a teenager.

12. What did Parvin decide the day her best friend’s apartment building was bombed?
(a) She would become an activist.
(b) She would start a radio program.
(c) She needed to leave the country some day.
(d) She would fight in a war.

13. Which of Parvin’s relatives were killed during the war, which Parvin had never told Sarah about?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncles.
(c) Her grandparents.
(d) Her brothers.

14. Why is Sarah confused when Mahmoud brings her to a hotel?
(a) She asked him to bring her some place else.
(b) She has never met Mahmoud before.
(c) It is the wrong hotel.
(d) She thought she was staying with Parvin.

15. What did Mayako’s brother leave to do when she was very young?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He left to fight.
(c) He left for college.
(d) He died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mahmoud say Parvin was encouraging people in Iran to do from her radio station in America?

2. What do the children play at the temple, which leaves some of them in tears?

3. What does Quyen confess to Mai she did with Truong after he was born?

4. What happens to Truong at the end of “The Boat”?

5. What does Mai do with the last ration of water Anh Phuoc gives to her?

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