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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 does 'indoctrination' mean?
(a) Allowing students to think for themselves
(b) Teaching students about doctors
(c) Teaching things in threes
(d) Teaching a system of beliefs that limits the students freedom of thought

2. What Point of View perspective does the neighbor occupy?
(a) The Fourth person
(b) The Third person, present tense
(c) The Second person
(d) The first person, past tense

3. Who is the final narrator of the novel?
(a) A neighbor
(b) The Mute Girl
(c) Kien
(d) Phuong

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

5. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?
(a) Three times
(b) Four times
(c) Twice
(d) Fourteen times

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?

2. Who is Hien?

3. What happens to the train that Phuong and Kien eventually get on?

4. Who lives above Kien?

5. How did Kien start on his road to recovery?

(see the answer key)

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