Characters
Vietnam
Vietnam History/Culture
Poetry
Comprehension
100
ten year-old narrator and main character of the novel and named after Vietnam’s Golden River
What is Ha?
100
Setting of the book (year and place)
What is Vietnam- 1975?
100
Leader of North Vietnam who supported communism
What is Ho Chi Minh?
100
A simile is a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as" find an example of a similie in the poem " Two Moore Papayas".
What is "soft as a yam"?
100
This is the Vietnamese New Year
What is Tet?
200
third son, closest with Hà, loves animals
What is Khoi?
200
Viet Cong were
People that lived in the south but supported communism?
200
This is the capital of South Vietnam
What is Saigon?
200
Identify the simile in "Twisting"Twisting"
What is "her brows twist like laundry"?
200
Ha chooses to take this item with her.
What is her doll?
300
second-oldest bro, and he teaches Hà how to defend herself using martial arts. wants to be like Bruce Lee
What is Vu?
300
Viet Cong tactics included
What is mines and booby traps, secret tunnels?
300
Doc Lap means
What is independence?
300
Repetition is the use of a word or phrase more than once and it can be used for several purposes in poetry. Identify how it is used in "Sssshhhhhh"
What is "stares, stares" ?
300
Genre of the book
What is narrative free verse?
400
oldest bro, and he's wicked smart, feels that most things are beneath him, and has a lot of political ideas
What is Quang?
400
America got involved with Vietnam because
What is stop the spread of Communism?
400
Name 3 countries that have tried to take control over Vietnam
What is China, France and Japan?
400
A metaphor is a comparison between 2 things without using the words "like" or "as". In "Crisscrossed Packs" identify 1 simile and 1 metaphor.
What is simile: "gaunt like bark" and metaphor: "the needle a worm"?
400
to pretend she knows here dad, Ha does this at night
What is whispers "tuyet sut" to herself?
500
secretary in Navy office, designs and cuts baby clothes
What is Mother?
500
tactics the American army used
What is bombing, burned villages, sprayed chemicals in the jungle?
500
Today Vietnam is considered a ________________country
What is communist?
500
Personification is giving human qualities to non human items. On pages 1-3 identify and example
What is "An old, angry knot expanded in my throat "?
500
pilot who bombed the presidential palace in South Vietnam
What is Communist spy?
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