Multiple Choice
Questions for Task Three
( Catfish and Mandela and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places)
1. In the excerpt from Catfish and Mandela by Andrew X. Pham,
one might guess that the "golden years" in Vietnam are
characterized by
a. men and women retiring in private apartment
b. parents moving back home with children
c. financial security
d. Senior Homes for the aged
2. The words "nickling" and "bargains"
suggest that the speaker's mother is
a. generous with money
b. smart about shopping
c. frugal
d. busy
3. One might guess that the speaker feels______________ about
his mother's life in America
a. satisfied
b. angry
c. frustrated
d. guilty
4. The ranting of the mother in the excerpt from When Heaven
and Earth Changed Places suggests that she is most worried about
a. how her daughter, the speaker, will survive
her pregnancy
b. what other people will think of her and her daughter
c. how she will afford to support her daughter and grandchild
d. how her daughter's pregnancy will be affected by the war
5. The line "I wanted to rage, but my hatred for the
war and the VietCong who raped me had already consumed my blackest
thoughts,"suggest that the speaker is feeling__________ and
__________.
a. passionate and furious
b. tired and defeated
c. relieved and hopeful
d. frustrated and confused
6. When the speaker says that her mother "spewed venom,"
she means that her mother
a. spread poisonous thoughts
b. threw up
c. yelled to anyone who would listen
d. seemed distracted
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