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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. What did both Mayako and Yumiko’s father’s do after the Manchuria Incident?
(a) They disappeared.
(b) They went to China to fight.
(c) They fled to America.
(d) They fled to Australia.

2. Where does Truong tell Mai he wants to go, which Quyen says it is okay for Mai to take him?
(a) Overboard.
(b) Home.
(c) The deck.
(d) To sleep.

3. Who had Mai’s father gone to sea to fight?
(a) Communists.
(b) Buddhists.
(c) Vietnamese.
(d) The Emperor’s army.

4. What happened to Mai’s father after being in the re-education camp?
(a) He did not remember Mai.
(b) He denounced his family.
(c) He had gone blind.
(d) He died of cancer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mai hear Truong singing, which is the same song her mother used to sing?

2. What does Sarah say her problems are compared to Parvin’s?

3. Who is Sarah sitting on a hotel bed with at the end of “Tehran Calling”?

4. How many people die during the two days Mai sleeps on the boat?

5. Truong becomes to weak to do what toward the end of “The Boat”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mayako’s mother describe her life as a child?

2. What are Mahmoud and Parvin’s arguments regarding whether the play about the young girl who was killed should be reenacted during Ashura?

3. What happens to the bodies of those who die on the boat?

4. Who is Anh Phuoc and what does he do on the boat?

5. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?

6. Who is the main character of “Tehran Calling” and where is she in the first lines of the story?

7. What does Mayako decide she will do at the end of “Hiroshima” and what does she say?

8. What is going on the week Sarah arrived in Iran, which Mahmoud tells her is their holiest week?

9. What does Quyen tell Mai about where her husband is?

10. What does Sarah learn about why Parvin came to Iran after she tells Mahmoud that she came to Iran to escape a man?

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