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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. What does the commissar offer the narrator to drink when he visits him for his last meeting in Chapter 23?
(a) Tea.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Wine.
(d) Scotch.

2. For how long has the narrator been imprisoned since the ambush in the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 3 years.

3. During what years was Ho Chi Minh president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam?
(a) 1955-1962.
(b) 1945-1969.
(c) 1950-1969.
(d) 1962-1972.

4. What word from Chapter 22 refers to the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation?
(a) Vivisection.
(b) Elocution.
(c) Intersection.
(d) Augument.

5. What does the doctor tell the narrator to do with his confession in Chapter 23?
(a) To eat it.
(b) To burn it.
(c) To sell it.
(d) To copy it.

Short Answer Questions

1. The red banner in the commissar's office says "Nothing is more precious than" what?

2. How many pages is the narrator's confession in Chapter 19?

3. Where does the commandant describe being held prisoner in Chapter 19?

4. Where is the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 23?

5. When was Ho Chi Minh born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What symbolism is revealed when Man waves at the narrator at the end of his reeducation?

2. Where are the narrator and Bon sent after leaving the prison in the end of the novel?

3. How is Abe's story related in Chapter 13?

4. What does Man reveal about his sympathies to the narrator in Chapter 22?

5. What memory of his father's death does the narrator recall in Chapter 18?

6. What is symbolized in the narrator's dream about the kapok tree in Chapter 13?

7. What is the answer to the question that the narrator must answer to the commmissar in the end of the novel?

8. Where does Claude take the narrator and Bon once they arrive in Thailand in Chapter 17?

9. What does the narrator confess to Sonny before killing him? Why?

10. How has the narrative style changed in Chapter 21? Why?

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