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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, p. 106 - 135.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien's father think Patriotim is opposed to, as seen in his quote?
(a) Communism
(b) Life
(c) Democracy
(d) Capitalism

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

3. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?
(a) Hanh
(b) Cam
(c) Lan
(d) Tranh

4. Who was Tranh?
(a) A friend of Kien's
(b) A lover of Phuong's
(c) A commander of their brigade
(d) A boy from school

5. How many years latter is this account set from the war?
(a) 14
(b) 12
(c) 10
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?

2. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?

3. How much time passes whilst Kien is away?

4. What is Kien's primary method to exorcise his guilt about the Vietnamese War?

5. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?

(see the answer key)

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