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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 is Kien's primary method to exorcise his guilt about the Vietnamese War?
(a) He writes obsessively
(b) He drinks excessively
(c) He cries ceaselessly
(d) He fights constantly

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

3. What terrain does most of the war take place in?
(a) Sea
(b) Mountain
(c) Desert
(d) Jungles and Mountains

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kien live in the present day?

2. How does Kien think his body collecting job is different from his wartime experience?

3. What sense suddenly gives Kien a memory of his wartime experiences?

4. What Point of view is this chapter written in?

5. Why was Lan so sorrowful towards Kien when they finally met each other once again?

(see the answer key)

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