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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, p. 39 – 72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Kien live in the present day?
(a) In an apartment complex
(b) In a cottage
(c) In a tenement building
(d) In a mansion

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

3. What was Kien’s father’s job before the war?
(a) School Teacher
(b) Soldier
(c) Historian
(d) Artist

4. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?
(a) He should be submitting it to publishers
(b) That he should be concentrating his writing on his present situation rather than the past
(c) He should be trying to publish in magazines
(d) He should be writing more often

5. What does Kien's father think Patriotim is opposed to, as seen in his quote?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Communism
(c) Democracy
(d) Life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?

2. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?

3. What did the character of Can try to do?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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