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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, p. 1 – 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the farmhouse girls?
(a) They were brutalised and killed
(b) They fled North Vietnam
(c) Kien saved them
(d) They moved to Hanoi

2. On whose side were the American's fighting during the Vietnam War?
(a) The British
(b) The North Vietnamese
(c) Their U.N's
(d) The South Vietnamese

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

4. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?
(a) To defend France
(b) To secure trade routes through the Asiatic sea
(c) To stop the spread of Communism through Asia
(d) At the behest of NATO

5. What does Kien do to the Commandoes when he finds them?
(a) He executes them
(b) He puts them on trial
(c) He spares them
(d) He takes their weapons away

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What terrain does most of the war take place in?

4. Who is Phuong?

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

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