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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator claim to be guilty of in his confession in Chapter 5?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Bigotry.

2. Where does the Department Chair say he met his wife in Chapter 4?
(a) Laos.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Japan.

3. Who is the dictator of the Philippines when the narrator leaves in Chapter 1?
(a) Ferdinand Marcos.
(b) Emilio Aguinaldo.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Chairman Mao.

4. What film of the Auteur's is described in Chapter 8 as "A critically lauded movie about the travails of Greek American youth in the inflamed streets of Detroit"?
(a) Watership Down.
(b) Venice Beach.
(c) Hard Knock.
(d) The Thin Red Line.

5. Where does Sonny say Abe is now in Chapter 13?
(a) Germany.
(b) Japan.
(c) Thailand.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lana attend college?

2. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?

3. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?

4. Madame exclaims in Chapter 7, "The worst thing about living in America is" what?

5. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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