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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. Before Mai leaves for the boat, what did Mai’s uncle tell her she must do as soon as she reaches land?
(a) Write her mother.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Seek help.
(d) Change her identity.

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

3. Why does Mai sleep for two days on the boat?
(a) She is bored.
(b) She is depressed.
(c) She has a fever.
(d) She takes a sleeping pill.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is telling the girls to keep their back straight while cleaning the floors at the beginning of “Hiroshima”?

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

3. Why did Quyen take Truong to escape with her?

4. What was the name of Parvin’s radio show in America?

5. When Sarah and Mahmoud see some men with clubs take other men back to their cars, who does she realize they are taking?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Mai emerges from her fever and two-day sleep, what does she notice about Truong?

2. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?

3. Who is Roya and what role does she take in regards to Sarah’s visit to Parvin’s parent’s villa?

4. What happens to Mai’s father five years after coming home from fighting the Communists?

5. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?

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

7. Describe some of the sensory details in the first lines of “The Boat” when Mai is on the boat during the storm.

8. Describe the play Parvin had seen when Sarah had arrived in Iran.

9. What does Sarah learn about Parvin’s past life in Iran before leaving for Europe?

10. How crowded is the boat as described on p. 247 of “The Boat”?

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