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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. How does Kien think his body collecting job is different from his wartime experience?
(a) Body Collecting is more dangerous
(b) Body Collecting has no value to it
(c) Body Collecting pays better
(d) Body Collecting is a moral thing to do

2. In Kien's memories, why was the commander begging to be shot?
(a) Because he had failed a particular objective
(b) Because of the shame of his job
(c) To release him from his suffering
(d) Because he had gone mad

3. Why did Kien become a body collector?
(a) Because he was head hunted for the job
(b) Because it meant he could be alone
(c) Because he needed the money
(d) To assuage some of his guilt concerning the war

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?

2. What does the Mute Girl feel towards Kien?

3. What War did Kien Fight on, and on which side?

4. Where is Hanoi?

5. What does Kien try to do which alarms his neighbor so much?

(see the answer key)

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