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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, when did the narrator’s grandfather die?

2. In Chapter 2, where were the narrator’s parrots and grandmother, when her grandfather asked her to go talk to Mr. Green?

3. In Chapter 7, what was the translated name of the restaurant owned by a man who was having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

4. According to Thieu, where does the former President of the former Republic of Vietnam live?

5. Where did Khanh and his wife grow up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the narrator of the story in Chapter 2?

2. How does Mr. Green die in Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator in Chapter 1 do during the war?

4. What does Mr. Chinh say about cars he has driven in his lifetime?

5. How does Francine describe the French cemetery in Saigon?

6. What films are frequently shown in the officers’ club that the Chapter 1 narrator does not enjoy?

7. Who is Thap?

8. What does Thieu remember about the time when Saigon fell?

9. What does Thieu try to interest in son in doing when Bill is bored?

10. What does Doctor Joseph tell the narrator to do to stop the man who is having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 9, the narrator involuntarily leaves Vietnam. Why didn’t the narrator plan to leave Vietnam? What did he leave behind? Why did the lieutenant help the narrator escape? If the narrator hadn’t escaped, would he have been likely to see his son grow up?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 8, the myth of an emperor who goes to the moon is told. What did the emperor find on the moon? Why did he leave? Why did he begin holding a festival on the fifteenth day of the eight month? In what way did the narrator say that she traveled to the moon? What did she find there? What does she think of the world where she lives now? Is she content in the world where she lives?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 1, Thap reminds the narrator of a ghost. What do the Vietnamese believe about ghosts? What is there about Thap that reminds the narrator of a ghost? Why does the narrator decide that Thap is not a ghost?

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