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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, p. 72 – 106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?
(a) Daydreams
(b) Visions
(c) Flashbacks
(d) Deja-Vu

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

3. What political position did the North Vietnamese Hold?
(a) Facist
(b) Capitalist
(c) Communist
(d) Anarcho-Syndicalism

4. What happens between Hien and Kien?
(a) They make love
(b) They gamble
(c) They fight
(d) They argue

5. What form does Kien's writing take?
(a) Typewriters
(b) Diaries and Notebooks
(c) Disks and computers
(d) Letters

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives above Kien?

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

3. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?

4. When does Kien start writing about the war?

5. Where is Kien when he starts reliving his experiences?

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