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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two armies forced the Vietnamese people to uproot their rice in order to plant jute?
(a) French and Japanese.
(b) Chinese and Japanese.
(c) Korean and Indonesian.
(d) Chinese and Korean.

2. Bui describes her family as fleeing from one country and starting over in another during what decade?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1980s.

3. Viet Thanh Nguyen describes Vietnamese refugees in what California city in the 1980s?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) San Jose.
(d) Oakland.

4. In what year did Japan send troops to "block Chinese supply routes" (102)?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1950.

5. After moving her own family to be closer to her parents, Thi realizes that what two elements are "not the same" (31)?
(a) Beauty and wisdom.
(b) Proximity and closeness.
(c) Nostalgia and memory.
(d) Safety and security.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the nurse brings in a tray of surgical instruments, Bui feels her heart take what action?

2. Bo says that when he was how old, his father had fallen in love with a neighbor?

3. What is Bui seeking when she meets with Viet Thanh Nguyen?

4. To what state do Thi and her family move in an effort to be emotionally closer to her parents?

5. Bui tells Nguyen that she had done what it took to get out of what California city?

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