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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thi feels that she was abandoned by Ma at what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 21.
(c) 17.
(d) 13.

2. Ma's first job in America requires putting what objects together?
(a) Circuit boards.
(b) Adoptive families.
(c) Boxes.
(d) Microchips.

3. Which of Thi's siblings was awarded the honor of valedictorian?
(a) Bich.
(b) Tam.
(c) Lan.
(d) Do.

4. The destruction of whose only assets led to their return to a situation of domestic violence?
(a) Bo's grandfather.
(b) Bo's grandmother.
(c) Ma.
(d) Lan.

5. Thi states in Chapter 2 that she has "figured out, more or less, how to" (29) take what action in regard to her "little family" (29)?
(a) Deceive.
(b) Appease.
(c) Impress.
(d) Raise.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years passed between the high school graduations of Lan and Bich?

2. Thi says that which city had a military presence that resulted in prejudice against Asians?

3. Lan had moved out of the family home due to problems with whom?

4. How old is the only child of Bo and Ma when people start to say that Saigon will "become a sea of blood" (214)?

5. What is the English translation of the three words Thi uses when she speaks to her child for the first time?

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