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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 does Tevy's father tell his daughters Khmer people marry for?

2. How is Superking Son acting strangely all of a sudden?

3. Who is Maly's mother?

4. Who comes with Toby to try to find the truck?

5. What is the name of the owner of Chuck's donuts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about the man who orders the apple fritters in the story titled "Three Women of Chuck's Donuts"?

2. Why is Sothy struggling to keep Chuck's Donuts open?

3. What does Sothy end up doing to the apple fritter man in the end of the story titled "Three Women on Chuck's Donuts"?

4. How does Ves feel about Maly's mother?

5. How does Tevy feel about her father after he leaves her family?

6. In the story titled "The Shop," what is Toby's role in the shop?

7. What does Maly think of the baby who is supposed to be reincarnated with her mother's spirit?

8. What happened to Maly's mother, and how does Maly feel about this?

9. How do the narrator and his friends feel about Justin?

10. What leads to the eventual decline of the shop's business?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ves think Maly really feels about the loss of Maly's mother? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think So chooses to leave the future of Toby's and Paul's relationship ambiguous in the story titled "The Shop"? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Doctor Heng's wife seem so interested in the Shop in the story titled "The Shop," and what is her influence there actually like? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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