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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bo's father came to visit Bo, it had been how many years since they had seen one another?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 30.
(d) 10.

2. During Bo's father's visit, he told Bo that whose family was "too nguy" for him to "risk being associated" (224) with them?
(a) Ma.
(b) Travis.
(c) Tam.
(d) Lan.

3. What is NOT a meaning of the word "nguy" (221) according to Bo?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) Manipulative.
(c) Lying.
(d) False.

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

5. In what year did the event take place that "the victors" call "Liberation Day" (211)?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1963.

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

7. Ma shares that she had loved what activity as a child?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Reading.

8. Ngo Dinh Diem was the prime minister of what area of Vietnam when he decided to fight the Binh Xuyen?
(a) The West.
(b) The South.
(c) The North.
(d) The East.

9. The violence in Saigon resulted in the destruction of whose opium?
(a) Bo's grandfather's.
(b) Bo's uncle's.
(c) Bo's grandmother's.
(d) The prime minister's.

10. Ma says that she stayed in what types of schools throughout her "entire education" (140)?
(a) Korean.
(b) French.
(c) Public.
(d) Vietnamese.

11. Which members of her family does Thi interview for an oral history project and "the beginnings of this book" (136)?
(a) Ma, Bo, and Lan.
(b) Ma and Bo.
(c) Bich and Bo.
(d) Ma, Lan, and Bich.

12. Chapter 5, entitled "Either, Or," revolves around which person?
(a) Bo.
(b) Lan.
(c) Bich.
(d) Ma.

13. What objects do communists call "capitalist filth" (220), according to Ma's instructions?
(a) Television.
(b) Dresses.
(c) Movies.
(d) Books.

14. Thi depicts Ma's devotion to her children by showing Ma peeling what type of fruit?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Plums.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Peaches.

15. Thi recalls that which person had talked more openly with Travis than she had with Thi?
(a) Lan.
(b) Bich.
(c) Ma.
(d) Bo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bo's reply when Ma tells him that she had been given a particular object by Bo's father?

2. Bui writes that whose "in-laws had found a boat for sale and wanted to escape the country" (227)?

3. Kieu is related to Thi in what way?

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

5. Bo states that "The New Economic Zones" (222) were actually what?

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