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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Phuong?
(a) Kien's lover
(b) Kien's sister
(c) Kien's mother
(d) A fellow soldier

2. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?
(a) It will make him rich
(b) It will make him famous
(c) It transforms his experiences and memories and makes sense of them
(d) It will show the world what Vietnam went through

3. What is Kien doing at the start of Part Three?
(a) Returning home after the war
(b) Hiding with Phuong
(c) Fighting the enemy
(d) Going abroad

4. Who is Hien?
(a) A commandder of the army
(b) A ghost
(c) A soldier friend whom Kien meets on the train to Hanoi
(d) An old school friend

5. What job did Kien do during the Vietnamese War, which he remembers so vividly?
(a) Body Collector
(b) Transport Truck Driver
(c) General
(d) Platoon Commander

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?

2. When does the Mute Girl realise that their relationship is over?

3. What was Kien’s father’s job before the war?

4. What happens to Kien's manuscript during this time that he is away?

5. Why does the Truck Driver say that it is unsurprising that Kien has bad dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Hanoi?

2. Why does the transport truck driver say it is no wonder that Kien is having bad dreams?

3. What job do we find Kien doing at the start of The Sorrow of War?

4. Who was Tranh?

5. What does Kien do for his friend the Mute Girl?

6. What does Kien do after burning the manuscript?

7. What was the most traumatic sight for Kien at Saigon Airport?

8. What did Kien remember feeling before the onset of war?

9. Why does the transport truck driver wake him up at the end of Part 1?

10. Who lives above Kien’ s apartment after the war?

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