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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1, entitled "Labor," takes place in what location?
(a) Miami.
(b) San Diego.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

2. The action Bui's heart takes when she sees the surgical instrument is the same she remembers from a time when Bo had talked openly about what subject?
(a) Defection.
(b) Rape.
(c) American soldiers.
(d) Sex.

3. Chapter 2: "Rewind, Reverse" begins in 2015, but quickly moves to what other year?
(a) 1987.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1999.

4. Thi recalls that which person had talked more openly with Travis than she had with Thi?
(a) Bo.
(b) Lan.
(c) Bich.
(d) Ma.

5. What adjective does Thi use to describe the "demons" (68) from her parents' pasts that had haunted Thi's childhood home?
(a) Deceptive.
(b) Relentless.
(c) Unexorcised.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?

2. Ma says that she stayed in what types of schools throughout her "entire education" (140)?

3. The destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?

4. Throughout the memoir, Bo's grandfather is referred to as what type of gentleman?

5. In the panel depicting Thi's family members, Bich says, "It's pronounced" (29) in what way?

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