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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. What is unique about the dish "Gaping Fish"?
(a) The dish is so spicy that even native Vietnamese shy away from it.
(b) The fish is eaten after it has been left to rot in the sun for three days.
(c) The fish is consumed whole - head, scales, and fins still intact.
(d) The fish is still alive when you eat it.

2. Which of the following is NOT something that happened to Andrew after leaving Hanoi?
(a) Prostitutes scratched at his hotel door begging to be let in.
(b) He had bloody diarrhea.
(c) He had his wallet stolen from his hotel room while he slept.
(d) He slept in a hotel room with a rat.

3. What college did Andrew attend?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) UCLA.
(c) University of California, Berkeley.
(d) University of California, Irvine.

4. How did Huy's family react to the news that Huy was gay?
(a) They were confused.
(b) They were outraged.
(c) They approved.
(d) They ignored it.

5. Who was the first to know that Andrew's brother, Huy, was gay?
(a) Chi.
(b) Andrew's mother.
(c) Andrew's father.
(d) Andrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what infraction did the policeman on the boxcar want to arrest Andrew?

2. What did Cuong/Calvin do for a living?

3. Who told Andrew that Vietnam's national heroine was a prostitute named Kieu?

4. What was the newspaper article Andrew's father saved for over a decade about?

5. At Grandpa Pham's memorial, what criticism did Andrew's father have of his own sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two images does Andrew encounter that he believes are perfect symbols for the people of Japan?

2. Why was Andrew's father arrested when he was a teenager?

3. Why wasn't Andrew allowed to board the commuter train from Muong Man?

4. What type of relationship did Trieu have with her birth father, the colonel?

5. What opinion did the American Vietnam War vet, whom Andrew met in a coffee shop, have about the War?

6. What happened when the police stopped Andrew on the cargo train to Hanoi?

7. What argument broke out at the Pham family's memorial to their Grandfather?

8. What did Andrew and Chi talk about during their last conversation, before Chi killed herself?

9. How did the Nguyen family say goodbye to Andrew when it was time for him to return to America?

10. Whose mummified remains are kept in the mausoleum in Hanoi?

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