The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Bao Ninh
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The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Bao Ninh
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time passes whilst Kien is away?
(a) A year
(b) A week
(c) Three years
(d) Fourteen years

2. What is special about the Mute Girl's apartment?
(a) Phuong used to own it
(b) It always smells nice
(c) It is always sunny
(d) It was the one that his father used to own

3. What did the Mute Girl find Kien attempting to do before he disappears?
(a) Commit suicide
(b) Kill somebody
(c) Paint a picture
(d) Burn the manuscript that he had been writing

4. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?
(a) The British
(b) The Americans
(c) The North Vietnamese
(d) The South Vietnamese

5. Who is the central character this Part is devoted to?
(a) lan
(b) Hanh
(c) Kien
(d) Phuong

6. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?
(a) Cam
(b) Phuong
(c) His father
(d) The Truck Driver

7. What terrain does most of the war take place in?
(a) Jungles and Mountains
(b) Desert
(c) Sea
(d) Mountain

8. What was Kien’s father’s job before the war?
(a) Historian
(b) Soldier
(c) School Teacher
(d) Artist

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

10. What does Kien try to do which alarms his neighbor so much?
(a) He tries to burn down the apartment building
(b) He tries to burn his writings
(c) He tries to start a fight
(d) He tries to commit suicide

11. What term can best be applied to what Kien is experiencing?
(a) Survivor guilt
(b) Low self-esteem
(c) Survivor happiness
(d) High achiever

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

13. What sense suddenly gives Kien a memory of his wartime experiences?
(a) The taste of the food
(b) The sight of the people
(c) The sound of the marketplace
(d) The smells around him

14. How did Kien get to know Lan during the war?
(a) She trained with him during Army Training
(b) He saved her life during the war
(c) He stayed at her house during Army Training
(d) She smuggled food for him

15. 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 spends too much time writing
(d) When Kien talks about Phuong

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do to the Commandoes when he finds them?

2. Where does Kien live in the present day?

3. What form does Kien's writing take?

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

5. What is Kien's primary method to exorcise his guilt about the Vietnamese War?

(see the answer keys)

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