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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. In Chapter 10, what city is the setting?

2. How old is the narrator in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 12, how large is the lot on which the narrator’s house is built?

4. What did the couple that made the deal before the sisters win?

5. In Chapter 12, what type of grass grows in the narrator’s yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a marriage ceremony like in Vietnam according to the narrator in Chapter 8?

2. Where did Mr. Cohen live before he lived in the United States?

3. In Chapter 11, what frightened Miss Giau during her first Christmas in America?

4. In Chapter 8, why didn’t the narrator marry Bao?

5. In Chapter 12, why didn’t the narrator’s family come with him to America?

6. What did the major decide had happened to him when he got back into his car in Chapter 10?

7. How does the narrator in Chapter 8 feel about her baby being a girl and why?

8. Why does Gabrielle believe a woman at the pool wearing a black two-piece suit won a puzzle-solving show?

9. In Chapter 10, what did the major discover when he awoke for a second time?

10. In Chapter 12, how did the narrator have the courage to leave Vietnam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 10, the narrator makes the comment that Miss Linh has eaten him up. What does the narrator mean by that statement? How many times did Miss Linh help him escape trouble? Was he escaping trouble the last time that he saw her? Why is he still haunted by her?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 5, Thieu’s son is growing up American. What is his son’s name? How does Bill dress? What are Bill’s interests? How does Bill respond when his father speaks Vietnamese? How does Thieu’s attempt to interest Bill in a Vietnamese boyhood tradition succeed? Is Bill more Vietnamese or more American?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 15, scents are very important to Dao. How do scents bring back memory? What do scents have to do with his religion? Why are scents used to describe his family? Do the types of scents mentioned depict the characters of family members? What is the last scent that Dao remembers?

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