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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speaking about her mother, Ma says, "I hated it when my mother" (142) took what action?
(a) Went to bed for days.
(b) Left her alone in the house.
(c) Had parties.
(d) Hit the servants.

2. Ma avoids the abortion required by new what?
(a) Laws.
(b) Tenets.
(c) Regulations.
(d) Unwritten rules.

3. How many months' pregnant was Ma when she and Bo planned their escape?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

4. What constant within society does Thi had "riled [Ma] up" (225)?
(a) Famine.
(b) Work shortages.
(c) Surveillance.
(d) Neighborhood meetings.

5. In his youth, Bo dyed his clothes what color in order to "look like a Communist" (155)?
(a) Pink.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

6. When Bo again lived with his grandmother and grandfather at the age of 14, of what material was their roof made?
(a) Palm leaves.
(b) Cardboard.
(c) Corrugated metal.
(d) Canvas.

7. 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) 6 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 3 years.

8. Bo states that "The New Economic Zones" (222) were actually what?
(a) Slums.
(b) Marshes.
(c) Concentration camps.
(d) Labor camps.

9. Bo says that before his final visit to see Bo, Bo's father had given what object to Ma?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A brooch.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A ring.

10. The organizer of Bo and Ma's escape attempt has what name?
(a) Mrs. Kieu.
(b) Mr. Son.
(c) Mr. Dien.
(d) Mr. Chau.

11. Thi says that Ma's friends would often tell Thi that she looked like her mother, "but not as" (132) what?
(a) Pretty.
(b) Fashionable.
(c) Gracious.
(d) Mature.

12. How old was Bo when he went to see his father in the North?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

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

14. Bo says that eventually, the land reforms resulted in the deaths of how many people?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 220,000.

15. The text states that "an estimated 94,000" soldiers from what country died trying to reclaim their country's colony?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?

2. On the same page that contains a unique type of media, Thi states, "We were now" what kind of "people" (267)?

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

4. Bo describes the "land reforms" (169) as a "process of" (169) as taking what action in relation to society?

5. On the first page of Chapter 7: "Heroes and Losers," Bui depicts a famous image of Saigon that includes what form of transportation?

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