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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. In Chapter 12, what color is the leather of the shoe that used to belong to a famous person?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Mahogany.
(d) Teakwood.
2. In Chapter 8, why can’t the narrator’s mother tell her more about the conversation she should have with her child?
(a) She lives in Vietnam.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She lives in California.
(d) She had a stroke and cannot speak.
3. In Chapter 8, how old was the narrator when she met her Vietnamese love?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.
4. In Chapter 8, what happened to the narrator’s Vietnamese love?
(a) Died in battle.
(b) Died of pneumonia.
(c) Married another.
(d) Parents wouldn’t allow him to marry the narrator.
5. In Chapter 12, what type of music does the narrator say he likes now he is in America?
(a) Jazz.
(b) New age.
(c) Easy listening.
(d) Rock.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of fence does the narrator have around her house in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 10 as the officer drove through the mountains, what dashed across the road?
3. In Chapter 9 when the narrator remembers stopping to rest, how old does he say his lieutenant was?
4. In Chapter 10, what city is the setting?
5. In Chapter 13, how old were the narrator and Thuy when they last ran in the white foam of the breakers on the beach?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 12, how does the narrator describe the special shoe that he owns?
2. What did the major decide had happened to him when he got back into his car in Chapter 10?
3. What does the narrator discover in Chapter 13 when she prepared Thuy’s body?
4. Why does the narrator in Chapter 9 find it strange that he escaped Vietnam and so many others didn’t?
5. When and where did Thuy and the narrator meet Ly?
6. How does the narrator in Chapter 8 feel about her baby being a girl and why?
7. What is the memory of fighting that the narrator shares in Chapter 9?
8. In Chapter 11, what frightened Miss Giau during her first Christmas in America?
9. What is a marriage ceremony like in Vietnam according to the narrator in Chapter 8?
10. In Chapter 8, why didn’t the narrator marry Bao?
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