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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 characterised the feelings that Kien had for warfare before it happened?
(a) Almost like Love
(b) Jealousy
(c) Hatred
(d) Patriotism

2. What form does Kien's writing take?
(a) Letters
(b) Typewriters
(c) Disks and computers
(d) Diaries and Notebooks

3. What political position did the American's Hold?
(a) Capitalist
(b) Communist
(c) Anarchic
(d) Socialist

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?

2. What was the last 'fun' memory that Kien remembers having with his troops in Part 1?

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

4. What Point of View perspective is the first Part written from?

5. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?

(see the answer key)

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