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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the dish soap that James Yoon is known for promoting in television commercials?
(a) Brawn.
(b) Cleanse.
(c) Sheen.
(d) Sudz.

2. What food does Madame offer to the narrator when he visits in Chapter 8?
(a) Bún bò Huế.
(b) Pho.
(c) Bahn mi.
(d) Spring rolls.

3. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

4. What does the narrator brush over the letters from his aunt in order to see the hidden messages in Chapter 4?
(a) Sugar water.
(b) Iodine.
(c) Milk.
(d) Salt water.

5. Who wrote the quote cited in Chapter 1: "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"?
(a) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(b) Richard Hedd.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

6. What was the narrator's father's profession?
(a) He was a clothing store owner.
(b) He was a priest.
(c) He was a baker.
(d) He was a banker.

7. Where is Asia Soo's father from?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Japan.
(c) Korea.
(d) China.

8. To what religion does Bon ascribe?
(a) Islam.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

9. Where does the narrator say Ms. Mori lives in Chapter 5?
(a) The Upper East Side.
(b) The Hackensack neighborhood.
(c) The Crenshaw neighborhood.
(d) Skid Row.

10. Where does the narrator wake up in the hospital after the accident on the movie set?
(a) Bangkok.
(b) Saigon.
(c) New York.
(d) Manila.

11. Where does the Department Chair say he met his wife in Chapter 4?
(a) Laos.
(b) Japan.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Vietnam.

12. Who is the dictator of the Philippines when the narrator leaves in Chapter 1?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Chairman Mao.
(c) Emilio Aguinaldo.
(d) Ferdinand Marcos.

13. Who gave the narrator his rucksack that he packs and leaves with in Chapter 1?
(a) Bon.
(b) The General.
(c) Claude.
(d) Man.

14. What does the narrator say his mother called him in Chapter 2?
(a) "A child prodigy."
(b) "Her tree of life."
(c) "Her love child."
(d) "A bastard."

15. What is Ms. Mori's first name?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Sophia.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Violet.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years does the narrator say he lived in the villa with the General when the Fall of Saigon occurred in Chapter 1?

2. What food item does the narrator describe missing terribly in his letter to his aunt in Chapter 4?

3. What does the narrator claim to be guilty of in his confession in Chapter 5?

4. What fictional spy character does the narrator describe sleeping peacefully on a bed of nails in Chapter 5?

5. What kind of camera does the narrator describe carrying in the hidden compartment of his rucksack?

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