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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 relation was it who urged Kien against Patriotism?
(a) His Mother's Second Husband
(b) His Uncle
(c) His mother's first husband
(d) His mother

2. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?
(a) He should be trying to publish in magazines
(b) He should be writing more often
(c) He should be submitting it to publishers
(d) That he should be concentrating his writing on his present situation rather than the past

3. How did Kien start on his road to recovery?
(a) He saw the victory of the North Vietnamese against the South
(b) He killed his enemy who had insulted Phuong
(c) He talked to a doctor
(d) He took a job as a body collector

4. Why does Kien find it so difficult to accept Tranh's death?
(a) Because he loved Tranh dearly
(b) Because he was once so alive and 'vital'
(c) Because Tranh had enough money to buy medicine
(d) Because Tranh was always so lucky

5. Who is the central character this Part is devoted to?
(a) lan
(b) Phuong
(c) Hanh
(d) Kien

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kien's job at the start of The Sorrow of War, while he is in the transport truck?

2. Who is Phuong?

3. What did the character of Can try to do?

4. What Point of View perspective is the first Part written from?

5. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?

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