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

2. What perspective is the first part of this Part written from?
(a) The Third Person Perspective
(b) Fourth Person
(c) Second Person
(d) First person

3. On whose side were the American's fighting during the Vietnam War?
(a) The South Vietnamese
(b) The North Vietnamese
(c) Their U.N's
(d) The British

4. How did Kien's friend Tam die?
(a) He was shot in the back
(b) He fell into the swamp
(c) He was covered in Agent Orange
(d) He died defending Kien from a paratrooper

5. What disturbing memory does Kien have about his fellow troops at the Airport?
(a) That they looted Saigon
(b) About their rough treatment of the bodies of the South Vietnamese
(c) That they all got drunk
(d) That they destroyed the airport

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?

3. What does Kien feel about the process of writing a novel at the start of Part Six?

4. Where do Phuong and Kien run off to whilst they are at school?

5. What did one particular friend think was the worst thing that could happen to a soldier?

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