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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ma says that her father had been a what?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A general.
(d) A civil engineer.

2. Ma alleges that Bo had been taking what action during the birth of one of their children?
(a) Attending the movies.
(b) Drinking at the bar.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Chopping wood.

3. Each child within Thi's family was given a container for their important objects by the time of what event?
(a) By the time they started school.
(b) By the time they lost their first tooth.
(c) By the time they graduated from high school.
(d) By the time they were weaned.

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)?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

5. What happened during the very last time Bo ever saw his mother?
(a) Bo's mother kissed him goodbye and told him to be good.
(b) Bo's mother crossed the border into China.
(c) Bo's grandfather beat up Bo's grandmother.
(d) Bo's father beat up his mother and threw her out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words does Ma say when Bui announces that she and her boyfriend are going to live together?

2. In what California city was the high school Bui helped to open?

3. According to Bo, who had accompanied him to see his father in 1954?

4. Thi and her siblings go to bed at what time every night while under the care of Bo?

5. Thi states near the end of the memoir that she no longer feels the "need to reclaim" (326) what?

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