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

2. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?
(a) The Truck Driver
(b) Cam
(c) Phuong
(d) His father

3. 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

4. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?
(a) The Americans
(b) North Vietnamese Commandoes
(c) The South Vietnamese
(d) Kien's own platoon

5. Why does the Truck Driver say that it is unsurprising that Kien has bad dreams?
(a) Because they are in the Jungle
(b) Because of the time of night
(c) Because he has had a bad war
(d) Because they are older men now

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last 'fun' memory that Kien remembers having with his troops in Part 1?

2. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

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

4. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?

5. What happened to the farmhouse girls?

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