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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. What color was the car that Le Ly and Anh rode in as they toured the Vietnamese countryside?

2. How long did Le Ly's wartime "souvenir" business last?

3. Who attended Le Ly's wedding to Ed on behalf of her family?

4. What type of a factory did Anh take Le Ly to on April 9?

5. In which branch of service did Ed's son serve?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Le Ly get her mother to sign the papers giving her permission to leave the country?

2. What approvals did Le Ly and her family need to obtain in order to give her father a traditional funeral?

3. How did the busy lives of Le Ly and her mother affect Hung?

4. How did Le Ly describe Ba when they were reunited?

5. How did Le Ly describe her experience when she went to claim her father's body at the morgue?

6. For a young Vietnamese woman, what were the options for getting out of the country?

7. What happened when the Republicans came and asked a Vietnamese woman who was memorialized with a statue about the whereabouts of the enemy?

8. How were Northerners regarded in the South?

9. What did Le Ly say needed to happen for some people in the United States?

10. When Mr. Long asked Le Ly what her Vietnamese friends in the States felt about socialist Vietnam, what did she tell him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the arrangements that had to be made for Le Ly's father's funeral and the problems that had to be overcome to have the funeral.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why and how Le Ly had endangered her family by returning to Vietnam.

Essay Topic 3

In 1986, Le Ly had mixed emotions as she landed in Danang. Discuss the emotions that Le Ly felt as she approached the reunion with her family.

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