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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hsu's father ask him what he thought the meaning of was late in Part I?
(a) Dysfunction.
(b) Lightness.
(c) Fun.
(d) Mourning.

2. What did Hsu desperately want to be the type of person to do?
(a) Be able to look effortlessly vague.
(b) Understand poetry.
(c) Cook well.
(d) Be able to compete in athletics.

3. Where does Hsu's father first go to college in America?
(a) Princeton.
(b) University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Yale.
(d) Amherst.

4. What did Hsu think his parents craved?
(a) More money.
(b) Religious freedom.
(c) Routine stability.
(d) New food.

5. What does Ken make that Hsu wonders how he knows to make?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Cake.
(c) Tiramisu.
(d) Hot chocolate.

6. What motivated Hsu to start his zine at first?
(a) Getting free clohtes.
(b) Getting into college.
(c) Getting free food.
(d) Getting free CDs.

7. What did Hus's mom often make for potlucks with friends?
(a) Salad.
(b) Pizza.
(c) Meatballs.
(d) Chicken wings.

8. What did Ken ask Hsu to do with him soon after they first met?
(a) Play badminton.
(b) Loan him money.
(c) Shop for clothes.
(d) Cook together.

9. What did Hsu think Ken projected?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Sweetness.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Talent.

10. What did Hsu think people are certain of when they are young?
(a) Their own egos.
(b) Their ability to imagine themselves a way out of the previous generation's problems.
(c) Their parents' love.
(d) Their talents.

11. How did Hsu begin sorting his classmates in his own mind?
(a) By athletic ability.
(b) By their food preferences.
(c) By their furniture.
(d) By their musical sensibilities.

12. What did Hsu argue you make a world out of as a college student?
(a) Your books.
(b) Your family.
(c) The things you buy.
(d) Your friends.

13. What city was not far enough away for Hsu from Cupertino to go to college?
(a) San Diego.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Boston.
(d) Los Angeles.

14. What campus in California did Hsu think of as being in a bubble?
(a) Stanford.
(b) UC Harvord.
(c) Dalesville.
(d) UC Davis.

15. What did Hsu and his friends sometimes seek in their first year of college?
(a) A modest kind of infamy.
(b) A brand of dancing.
(c) A way to find out who they really were.
(d) A certain type of fun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hsu say youth is a pursuit of?

2. How did Hsu's father refer to his zine?

3. Which band did Hsu particularly like in high school?

4. Which philosopher's ideas influenced Hsu's thinking about friendship?

5. What did Ken initially think he wanted to study?

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