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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 Kien's job at the start of The Sorrow of War, while he is in the transport truck?
(a) Diplomat
(b) Body Collector
(c) Soldier
(d) Driver

2. Why does Kien find it so difficult to accept Tranh's death?
(a) Because he was once so alive and 'vital'
(b) Because Tranh had enough money to buy medicine
(c) Because Tranh was always so lucky
(d) Because he loved Tranh dearly

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

4. What disturbing memory does Kien have about his fellow troops at the Airport?
(a) About their rough treatment of the bodies of the South Vietnamese
(b) That they looted Saigon
(c) That they all got drunk
(d) That they destroyed the airport

5. Where is Hanoi?
(a) The capital of South Vietnam
(b) China
(c) North America
(d) The capital of North Vietnam

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?

2. What did the Mute Girl find Kien attempting to do before he disappears?

3. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

4. What is Kien doing at the start of Part Three?

5. Why does the Truck Driver say that it is unsurprising that Kien has bad dreams?

(see the answer key)

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