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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. When does Kien start writing about the war?
(a) When he first signs up at the war office
(b) The night after he breaks up with Phuong
(c) Twenty years later
(d) Fourteen years later

2. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?
(a) To give him a gift
(b) To say sorry
(c) To ask for money
(d) To see him on his death bed, before he dies

3. What Point of view is this chapter written in?
(a) The first person and the third person perspective
(b) The Second point of view
(c) The fourth point of view
(d) The Third point of view

4. What War did Kien Fight on, and on which side?
(a) Allied's, Second World War
(b) Communist China, Second World War
(c) North Vietnamese, Vietnam War
(d) Guerillas, Combodia

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?

4. How many years latter is this account set from the war?

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

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