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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, p. 39 – 72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What enemies did Kien face during the war?
(a) The Chinese
(b) The French
(c) The Germans
(d) The Americans and the south Vietnamese

2. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?
(a) The North Vietnamese
(b) The South Vietnamese
(c) The British
(d) The Americans

3. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?
(a) Cambodia
(b) Britain
(c) Korea
(d) China

4. What Point of View perspective is the first Part written from?
(a) Second Person
(b) Fourth Person
(c) Third Person
(d) First Person perspective

5. What did the character of Can try to do?
(a) Steal food because he was hungry
(b) Sacrifice himself for his comrades
(c) Attack Kien because of a private insult
(d) Escape from the war

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it called the Jungle of Screaming Souls?

2. What relation was it who urged Kien against Patriotism?

3. Why was Kien thinking about executing the commandos?

4. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?

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

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