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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, p. 211-217.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Phuong help Kien to rejoin his unit and avoid being accused of desertion?
(a) She gives him money to bribe the guards
(b) She makes a phone call to their army base
(c) She hitches a ride with him to their barracks
(d) She writes a letter to their commander

2. Why is it lucky that Kien and Phuong miss their first train?
(a) It was late getting to the front line
(b) It broke down on the way to the War
(c) It got bombed
(d) They avoid someone they don't like

3. What Point of View perspective is the first Part written from?
(a) First Person perspective
(b) Second Person
(c) Third Person
(d) Fourth Person

4. Who is Phuong?
(a) A fellow soldier
(b) Kien's lover
(c) Kien's sister
(d) Kien's mother

5. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?
(a) He should be trying to publish in magazines
(b) That he should be concentrating his writing on his present situation rather than the past
(c) He should be writing more often
(d) He should be submitting it to publishers

Short Answer Questions

1. What 'peaceful' memory of the war does Kien think about in this Part?

2. Who lives above Kien?

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

4. What does Phuong finally say to Kien?

5. What does Kien's father think Patriotim is opposed to, as seen in his quote?

(see the answer key)

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