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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term can best be applied to what Kien is experiencing?
(a) Survivor guilt
(b) Survivor happiness
(c) High achiever
(d) Low self-esteem

2. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?
(a) Cam
(b) The Truck Driver
(c) His father
(d) Phuong

3. When does Kien start writing about the war?
(a) The night after he breaks up with Phuong
(b) When he first signs up at the war office
(c) Fourteen years later
(d) Twenty years later

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

5. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?
(a) To secure trade routes through the Asiatic sea
(b) At the behest of NATO
(c) To stop the spread of Communism through Asia
(d) To defend France

6. Who lives above Kien?
(a) The Deaf Girl
(b) The Old Lady
(c) The Mute Girl
(d) The Blind Boy

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

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

9. Who is the central character this Part is devoted to?
(a) lan
(b) Kien
(c) Phuong
(d) Hanh

10. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?
(a) Cambodia
(b) Britain
(c) China
(d) Korea

11. What enemies did Kien face during the war?
(a) The French
(b) The Chinese
(c) The Americans and the south Vietnamese
(d) The Germans

12. What sense suddenly gives Kien a memory of his wartime experiences?
(a) The sight of the people
(b) The taste of the food
(c) The sound of the marketplace
(d) The smells around him

13. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?
(a) To ask for money
(b) To see him on his death bed, before he dies
(c) To give him a gift
(d) To say sorry

14. How did Kien get to know Lan during the war?
(a) He stayed at her house during Army Training
(b) She smuggled food for him
(c) She trained with him during Army Training
(d) He saved her life during the war

15. What is special about the Mute Girl's apartment?
(a) It was the one that his father used to own
(b) Phuong used to own it
(c) It is always sunny
(d) It always smells nice

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes whilst Kien is away?

2. What job did Kien do during the Vietnamese War, which he remembers so vividly?

3. Who was Tranh?

4. What is Kien's job at the start of The Sorrow of War, while he is in the transport truck?

5. What happens between Hien and Kien?

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