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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, p. 180 – 211.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Kien afraid to miss his train?
(a) Everyone will think he is a deserter
(b) He wants to leave Phuong behind
(c) He wants to fight
(d) He doesn't want to let down his father's expectations

2. What does the letter urge him to do?
(a) To invest his pension
(b) To leave North Vietnam
(c) To forget about Phuong
(d) To find his lover and to forget about the war

3. What colour does Kien's father use to paint with as he gets more depressed?
(a) Blue
(b) Red
(c) Green
(d) Yellow

4. When did Kien's father die?
(a) During the war
(b) During the first air raids to attack Hanoi
(c) During the 1990's
(d) Before he was born

5. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?
(a) The Americans
(b) Kien's own platoon
(c) North Vietnamese Commandoes
(d) The South Vietnamese

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien tell the Mute Girl when he visits her?

2. What is special about the Mute Girl's apartment?

3. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?

4. What was the first occasion that Kien had been drunk?

5. Where do Kien and Phuong hide after their train was bombed?

(see the answer key)

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