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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3 begins in what location?
(a) Miami.
(b) Peru.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Vietnam.

2. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What procedure does Bui want to avoid if at all possible during the birth of her son?
(a) A Caesarean section.
(b) An episiotomy.
(c) An epidural.
(d) A repair of a genital tear.

4. With what assessment of Ma's does Bo disagree in Chapter 3?
(a) That Bo was not present at Ma's fortieth birthday party.
(b) That Bo was not present at Lan's birth.
(c) That Bo was not present at Tam's birth.
(d) That Bo was not present at Bich's birth.

5. In the preface of The Best We Could Do, Bui states that the "seeds of this book were planted" in what year?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1996.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2002.

Short Answer Questions

1. Viet Thanh Nguyen describes Vietnamese refugees in what California city in the 1980s?

2. Thi says that the last time Bo saw his mother was during "the height of the" (111) what?

3. Once all of Thi's family lives in the same state, where does Ma live?

4. When Bui feels a particular emotion after the birth of her son, a "wave of" (22) what emotion for Ma washes over her?

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

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