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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien's father think Patriotim is opposed to, as seen in his quote?
(a) Life
(b) Democracy
(c) Capitalism
(d) Communism

2. What is Kien doing at the start of Part Three?
(a) Fighting the enemy
(b) Going abroad
(c) Hiding with Phuong
(d) Returning home after the war

3. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?
(a) Visions
(b) Daydreams
(c) Flashbacks
(d) Deja-Vu

4. What happens between Hien and Kien?
(a) They argue
(b) They fight
(c) They make love
(d) They gamble

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

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

7. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?
(a) Kien's own platoon
(b) The Americans
(c) North Vietnamese Commandoes
(d) The South Vietnamese

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

9. What happened to the farmhouse girls?
(a) They fled North Vietnam
(b) They moved to Hanoi
(c) Kien saved them
(d) They were brutalised and killed

10. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?
(a) Korea
(b) Cambodia
(c) Britain
(d) China

11. Who is Lan?
(a) Kien's mother
(b) A fellow soldier
(c) A friend
(d) Kien's sister

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

13. What is Saigon the capital of?
(a) Australia
(b) North Vietnam
(c) South Vietnam
(d) South America

14. What did the character of Can try to do?
(a) Sacrifice himself for his comrades
(b) Escape from the war
(c) Steal food because he was hungry
(d) Attack Kien because of a private insult

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Kien start writing about the war?

2. What sense suddenly gives Kien a memory of his wartime experiences?

3. What Point of View perspective is the first Part written from?

4. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

5. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?

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