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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. What does Kien recognise about the driver of the tram on his return home from the bar?
(a) It is the father of Toan
(b) That he is actually Phuong
(c) That he is a long lost friend
(d) That he is a ghost from the war

2. What position did Kien hold in the War?
(a) Platoon commander
(b) Lieutennant
(c) Brigadier General
(d) Truck Driver

3. What does Kien realise is different about Phuong?
(a) She has a new lover
(b) She is carrying herself differently
(c) She has a new scar
(d) She has died her hair

4. What disturbing memory does Kien have about his fellow troops at the Airport?
(a) That they all got drunk
(b) That they looted Saigon
(c) That they destroyed the airport
(d) About their rough treatment of the bodies of the South Vietnamese

5. Why is it lucky that Kien and Phuong miss their first train?
(a) They avoid someone they don't like
(b) It got bombed
(c) It was late getting to the front line
(d) It broke down on the way to the War

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Tranh?

2. What 'peaceful' memory of the war does Kien think about in this Part?

3. How does Hoa die?

4. What relation was it who urged Kien against Patriotism?

5. What does Kien do the next day?

(see the answer key)

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