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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 city did Hsu think was "lame"?

2. What did Hsu desperately want to be the type of person to do?

3. What did Hsu's father like to collect?

4. What had Hsu never touched before college?

5. What did Hsu spend a lot of time doing his first few weeks at college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hsu describe the content of his zine?

2. What does Ken ask Hsu to help him with early in their relationship?

3. What does Hsu think there is an intimacy in doing with someone else in Part II?

4. What does Hsu's mother once advertise as a service when he is a child?

5. What is Hsu's first impression of Ken?

6. What art form does Hsu often connect to people through?

7. What does Hsu's family buy when his father moves to Taiwan and why?

8. What habit do Ken and Hsu take up together?

9. What is Ken really disappointed a former girlfriend of his says to him, as he relates it to Hsu?

10. What telos is baked into the immigrant experience, according to Hsu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do Hsu's parents spend more and more time in Taiwan as they age, and what does Hsu learn about his parents' relationship to their home? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How would you describe Hsu's own core descriptions and beliefs about the nature and character of friendship? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do Hsu and his friends learn about Ken's death, and how does the news and the aftermath of losing his friend change Hsu's life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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