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

2. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?
(a) Cam
(b) Phuong
(c) The Truck Driver
(d) His father

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

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

5. What does Kien try to do which alarms his neighbor so much?
(a) He tries to start a fight
(b) He tries to burn his writings
(c) He tries to commit suicide
(d) He tries to burn down the apartment building

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?

2. Who is the central character this Part is devoted to?

3. In Kien's memories, why had the man 'reverted to the wild'?

4. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?

5. What is Saigon the capital of?

(see the answer key)

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