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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien do to the Commandoes when he finds them?
(a) He puts them on trial
(b) He executes them
(c) He spares them
(d) He takes their weapons away

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

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

4. What does the Mute Girl feel towards Kien?
(a) She loves him
(b) She hates him
(c) She distrusts him
(d) She respects him

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

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

7. What enemies did Kien face during the war?
(a) The Germans
(b) The Chinese
(c) The French
(d) The Americans and the south Vietnamese

8. When does Kien start writing about the war?
(a) When he first signs up at the war office
(b) The night after he breaks up with Phuong
(c) Fourteen years later
(d) Twenty years later

9. What does the Mute Girl do for Kien's writings?
(a) Sells them
(b) Burns them
(c) Copies them
(d) Gathers them together into one manuscript

10. What Point of view is this chapter written in?
(a) The fourth point of view
(b) The Third point of view
(c) The Second point of view
(d) The first person and the third person perspective

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

12. Why was Lan so sorrowful towards Kien when they finally met each other once again?
(a) Because of what has happened to her home
(b) Because of Kien's scars
(c) Because of her family
(d) Because they could have been lovers

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

14. 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 burned
(d) It gets published

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Kien's 'last enduring obsession?

2. What is Saigon the capital of?

3. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?

4. Who is Phuong?

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

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