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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Boat” Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a women on the boat say Truong has when Mai wakes to see he has vomited?
(a) The sickness.
(b) The flu.
(c) A stomach bug.
(d) Food poisoning.

2. After Linda reads Nam’s story at the coffee shop, what does she tell him he is doing to his father in order to forgive him for abusing him?
(a) Sugarcoating his story.
(b) Lying about him.
(c) Making him seem too nice.
(d) Romanticizing his past.

3. How many stories has Nam written in the year he has spent at the writing workshop?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 25.
(c) 0.
(d) 3 1/2.

4. What does Alison tell Jamie he smells like after she kisses his fingertips by the courthouse?
(a) Sweat.
(b) Fish.
(c) Feces.
(d) The ocean.

5. Who does Dory hit, possibly accidentally, when he comes to save Jamie from his fight with Dory?
(a) Jamie’s mother.
(b) Alison.
(c) Jamie’s father.
(d) Michael.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl Jamie likes in “Halflead Bay”?

2. What happens to the dead bodies on the boat?

3. Which of Parvin’s relatives were killed during the war, which Parvin had never told Sarah about?

4. What does Jamie’s mother do to the seagull after Jamie is unable to kill it?

5. Nam’s father tells a story that Nam had never heard before about hiding from whom in a bunker?

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