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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien feel about the process of writing a novel at the start of Part Six?
(a) That it is making him famous
(b) That it is boring and unproductive
(c) That is a worthy and moral process
(d) That it makes lots of money

2. What does Kien often wonder about his past colleagues?
(a) How many are still in the army
(b) How he can contact them
(c) If they are still alive
(d) How many now lead settled and peaceful lives

3. How did Kien's friend Tam die?
(a) He was covered in Agent Orange
(b) He died defending Kien from a paratrooper
(c) He was shot in the back
(d) He fell into the swamp

4. How are Kien and Phuong separated the very next day?
(a) Phuong goes to University whilst Kien is called for army training
(b) Kien is ordered away by his father
(c) Phuong is betrothed to someone else
(d) The Americans invade

5. Where did Kien meet Phuong?
(a) At school
(b) On the battlefield
(c) After the war
(d) In army training

6. What was the first occasion that Kien had been drunk?
(a) After the train got bombed
(b) After his sixteenth birthday
(c) After the air raid in Hanoi
(d) After the fighting at Saigon aiport

7. What does Kien do the next day?
(a) Returns to Hanoi
(b) Reports for duty and begins his war service
(c) Joins with the South Vietnamese.
(d) Deserts into the Jungle

8. Where did Kien go, many years after the war had ended?
(a) To China
(b) To America
(c) To Australia
(d) To where Hoa died

9. What does Kien discover about his fathers painting when he goes to warn him?
(a) That he sold them
(b) That he burnt them all
(c) That he faked them
(d) That he was rich

10. What does 'indoctrination' mean?
(a) Teaching things in threes
(b) Teaching a system of beliefs that limits the students freedom of thought
(c) Allowing students to think for themselves
(d) Teaching students about doctors

11. What is Kien's definition of sacrifice?
(a) Having to be away from home
(b) Leaving Phuong
(c) Friends who would die to save one another
(d) Eating army dinners

12. What musical instrument was Phuong especially good at?
(a) The guitar
(b) The piano
(c) The flute
(d) The clarinet

13. What does Phuong taunt Kien about becoming?
(a) A killer
(b) A capitalist
(c) A communist
(d) A pacifist

14. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?
(a) Twice
(b) Four times
(c) Fourteen times
(d) Three times

15. What does Kien do with the culprits of the farmhouse killing?
(a) He runs away
(b) He doesn't execute them
(c) He bribes them
(d) He executes them

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kien's father die?

2. What did this skill reveal to Kien?

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

4. What did one particular friend think was the worst thing that could happen to a soldier?

5. Who does Kien dream about in hospital?

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