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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, p. 211-217.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?
(a) Tranh
(b) Hanh
(c) Lan
(d) Cam

2. When does the Mute Girl realise that their relationship is over?
(a) When Kien talks about Phuong
(b) When she finds that he has disappeared
(c) When Kien spends too much time writing
(d) When Kien starts crying

3. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?
(a) He punches the driver
(b) Cries out in his sleep
(c) He curses
(d) He fires his gun

4. What clue is there for the narrator that Kien will know peace?
(a) Kien was rich
(b) Kien left a forwarding address
(c) Kien sent a letter many years later
(d) Because the manuscript keeps on returning to the positive, transforming nature of writing

5. What did the author feel was the manuscript's failing?
(a) Bad spelling
(b) No clear ending
(c) Lack of narrative voice
(d) An inconsistent structure

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends Kien the letter that he receives many years later?

2. What term can best be applied to what Kien is experiencing?

3. Where did Kien meet Phuong?

4. Why does Kien almost attack the taunting soldiers in the abandoned hospital?

5. How did Kien's friend Tam die?

(see the answer key)

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