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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?
(a) The prime minister's.
(b) Bo's grandmother's.
(c) Bo's grandfather's.
(d) Bo's uncle's.

2. What type of media is included within Chapter 8 that appears nowhere else in the memoir?
(a) A bar graph.
(b) Sheets of music.
(c) Photography.
(d) Calligraphy.

3. Thi describes her mother's scent by using the name of what brand?
(a) Dove.
(b) Baby powder.
(c) Oil of Olay.
(d) Jean Nate.

4. Ngo Dinh Diem was the prime minister of what area of Vietnam when he decided to fight the Binh Xuyen?
(a) The North.
(b) The West.
(c) The East.
(d) The South.

5. Bo describes the First Indochina War as lasting how long?
(a) A lifetime.
(b) Decades.
(c) A century.
(d) A decade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constant within society does Thi had "riled [Ma] up" (225)?

2. Thi describes the city of Hai Phong by using what noun?

3. What is Bo's reply when Ma tells him that she had been given a particular object by Bo's father?

4. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?

5. Thi says that Bo had fished for what kind of creatures in his childhood spent in Hai Phong?

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