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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 becomes Kien's 'last enduring obsession?
(a) A child's toy
(b) Hanh
(c) The beautiful south Vietnamese soldier who ambushed them
(d) Phuong

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

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

4. What does Kien tell the Mute Girl when he visits her?
(a) He tells her fairy stories
(b) He tells her that she is beautiful
(c) He tells her horror stories
(d) He tells her story about the War

5. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?
(a) JFK
(b) Hanoi
(c) Saigon
(d) Gatwick

Short Answer Questions

1. What enemies did Kien face during the war?

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

3. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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