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1 How does Trevor die?
Murder

Car accident

Drug overdose

Suicide
2 How long does it take for Paul and Lan to get married after meeting each other for the first time?
One year

One day

One month

One week
3 Why does Paul leave Lan?
He found another woman.

Lan leaves him for another man.

He doesn't love her anymore.

His mother is diagnosed with TBC.
4 When Lan tells Little Dog to cross the fence, what does she want him to take?
Trash bins

A cardboard box

Wildflowers

Free clothes
5 Why does Little Dog leave Hartford?
To attend school in NYC for writing

To leave Trevor

To become an actor

To become a playwright
6 What year did Paul meet Lan?
1970

1983

1960

1967
7 Where does Little Dog work for the summer?
A school

A supermarket

A farm

A pool
8 Who is the famous golfer that is birthed from two people who met because of the Vietnam War?
Tiger Woods

Prayad Marksaeng

Lebron James

Thongchai Jaidee
9 What do Little Dog and Paul harvest?
Beets

Basil

Wheat

Tomatoes
10 What does the narrator tell Rose has been spray painted on their door?
Happy New Year

Happy Thanksgiving

FAG4LIFE

Merry Christmas
11 When did Trevor's opioid addiction begin?
After Little Dog left for New York

After he broke his ankle and was prescribed OxyContin

After his father beat him

After he came to terms with his sexuality
12 What makes Little Dog return to Hartford?
Lan's diagnosis

Rose's death

Trevor's death

Trevor's absence
13 Who does Little Dog video call in Saigon?
Paul

Mai

Rose

Lan
14 What does Little Dog witness while walking in Saigon?
A group of monkeys

A marriage

A baby dying

A troupe of drag performers in a procession with a body in the streets
15 Why do the fireworks trigger Rose and Lan?
They don't know it's a holiday.

They were not expecting it.

They think they are gunshots.

They remind them of the war.
16 What does Little Dog reveal to his mother at Dunkin' Donuts?
His sexuality

His desire to become a writer

His grades at school

His mistakes
17 What does Little Dog find in an old pocket in his closet?
An old knife

A notebook

A Jolly Rancher candy

An ink pen
18 On her deathbed, what does Lan tell her grandson is a stupid thing?
To be a girl

To be in love

To be a mother

To be stupid
19 What is the last thing Lan asks for before she dies?
Fish

Go Cong rice

Sushi

A Jolly Rancher candy
20 Why does the narrator feel okay with Trevor's sexual aggressiveness?
He believes it is a form of love.

Trevor tells him he cannot be intimate without being violent.

He thinks it is the only way to be intimate.

It reminds him of his mother's abuse.
21 What word does the narrator begin using to express a multitude of sentiments?
Take care

Sorry

Hello

Goodbye
22 Why does Rose laugh when her client tells her her horse died of cancer?
She does not think it is something to cry about.

She thinks Americans are self-indulgent.

Her daughter was actually her horse.

She does not understand what she said.
23 What does Lan reveal about Paul?
He was one of Lan's clients.

He used to physically abuse Lan.

He killed a relative of hers.

He is not the narrator's blood grandfather.
24 Where does the family bury Lan?
In the backyard

In Vietnam

By a body of water in Hartford

In the United States
25 Which musical artist do Trevor and Little sing repeatedly?
Lil Wayne

Snoop Dog

50 Cent

Eminem

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