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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, p. 1 – 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the farmhouse girls?
(a) They were brutalised and killed
(b) They fled North Vietnam
(c) Kien saved them
(d) They moved to Hanoi

2. What is Kien's job at the start of The Sorrow of War, while he is in the transport truck?
(a) Diplomat
(b) Driver
(c) Soldier
(d) Body Collector

3. On whose side were the American's fighting during the Vietnam War?
(a) The British
(b) The North Vietnamese
(c) The South Vietnamese
(d) Their U.N's

4. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?
(a) The Americans
(b) The South Vietnamese
(c) The North Vietnamese
(d) The British

5. What was the last 'fun' memory that Kien remembers having with his troops in Part 1?
(a) Of having a card game with his platoon
(b) Of telling jokes
(c) Of listening to music
(d) Of going out to a bar

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?

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

3. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

4. What does Kien do to the Commandoes when he finds them?

5. What terrain does most of the war take place in?

(see the answer key)

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