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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is it called the Jungle of Screaming Souls?
(a) Because of the terrible battles that were fought there
(b) Because of the high winds in the area
(c) Because of an ancient legend associated with that area
(d) Because of the monkeys that live there

3. What position did Kien hold in the War?
(a) Truck Driver
(b) Platoon commander
(c) Lieutennant
(d) Brigadier General

4. What political position did the American's Hold?
(a) Communist
(b) Capitalist
(c) Anarchic
(d) Socialist

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

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

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

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

9. What happens to Kien's manuscript during this time that he is away?
(a) It gathers dust in the attic
(b) It gets sold
(c) It gets published
(d) It gets burned

10. After the war, why does Phuong and Kien's second attempt at a relationship fail?
(a) Phuong has a long distance job
(b) Kien's father gets in the way
(c) They have both been with other lovers
(d) Kien drinks too much

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

12. Where is Hanoi?
(a) The capital of South Vietnam
(b) China
(c) North America
(d) The capital of North Vietnam

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

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

15. Why did Kien become a body collector?
(a) Because it meant he could be alone
(b) Because he was head hunted for the job
(c) To assuage some of his guilt concerning the war
(d) Because he needed the money

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?

2. What is Kien doing at the start of Part Three?

3. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?

4. What did the character of Can try to do?

5. How many years latter is this account set from the war?

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