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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 11, what color is Mr. Cohen’s beard?

2. What color ao dai did the woman wear that the officer saw in the middle of the road in Chapter 10?

3. What nationality is the family that owns the restaurant in Chapter 11?

4. In Chapter 11, what is Miss Giau’s religion?

5. How old is Miss Giau in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, why does the narrator write to his son?

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

4. Where is Thuy to be buried?

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

6. What does the narrator discover in Chapter 13 when she prepared Thuy’s body?

7. In Chapter 12, how does the narrator describe the special shoe that he owns?

8. In Chapter 11, why does Mr. Cohen say that Christmas is not his holiday?

9. In Chapter 10, what did the woman in the road tell the officer after he crashed and found himself lying on the ground?

10. In Chapter 10, what did Miss Linh save the narrator from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 4, Miss Noi shares her love for fairy tales. Why does Miss Noi like fairy tales? Why does she especially like the word “upon” that begins most fairy tales? Is her story told like a fairy tale? Does she believe that her life has been a fairy tale?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, Thap reminds the narrator of a ghost. What do the Vietnamese believe about ghosts? What is there about Thap that reminds the narrator of a ghost? Why does the narrator decide that Thap is not a ghost?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 8, the narrator extols marriage as it is in Vietnam. What was different about marriage in Vietnam than in America? How did couples usually meet and marry in Vietnam? What was different about the narrator’s betrothal? Did the narrator think there were advantages to marriage in America as compared to Vietnam?

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