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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, p. 135 – 180.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?
(a) Flashbacks
(b) Visions
(c) Deja-Vu
(d) Daydreams

2. Who is Lan?
(a) Kien's sister
(b) Kien's mother
(c) A fellow soldier
(d) A friend

3. What happened to the farmhouse girls?
(a) Kien saved them
(b) They were brutalised and killed
(c) They moved to Hanoi
(d) They fled North Vietnam

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

5. What does Kien do with the culprits of the farmhouse killing?
(a) He bribes them
(b) He executes them
(c) He doesn't execute them
(d) He runs away

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kien dream about in hospital?

2. Where is Hanoi?

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

4. Why was Lan so sorrowful towards Kien when they finally met each other once again?

5. What does Phuong want Kien to be?

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