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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, p. 180 – 211.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one particular friend think was the worst thing that could happen to a soldier?
(a) Venereal disease
(b) Having a small house
(c) Having no money
(d) A bad relationship

2. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?
(a) He punches the driver
(b) He fires his gun
(c) He curses
(d) Cries out in his sleep

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

4. When does the Mute Girl realise that their relationship is over?
(a) When Kien starts crying
(b) When she finds that he has disappeared
(c) When Kien talks about Phuong
(d) When Kien spends too much time writing

5. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?
(a) It will show the world what Vietnam went through
(b) It transforms his experiences and memories and makes sense of them
(c) It will make him rich
(d) It will make him famous

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do with the culprits of the farmhouse killing?

2. What job did Kien do during the Vietnamese War, which he remembers so vividly?

3. What do Kien's neighbors feel about Kien?

4. Why does Kien almost attack the taunting soldiers in the abandoned hospital?

5. What becomes Kien's 'last enduring obsession?

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