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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kien find it so difficult to accept Tranh's death?
(a) Because Tranh had enough money to buy medicine
(b) Because he was once so alive and 'vital'
(c) Because Tranh was always so lucky
(d) Because he loved Tranh dearly

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

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

4. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?
(a) To say sorry
(b) To give him a gift
(c) To see him on his death bed, before he dies
(d) To ask for money

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

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

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

8. What job did Kien do during the Vietnamese War, which he remembers so vividly?
(a) Platoon Commander
(b) General
(c) Transport Truck Driver
(d) Body Collector

9. Where is Kien at the start of the chapter?
(a) At the Library
(b) At the Supermarket
(c) At the Market Place
(d) At the School

10. Who is Hien?
(a) A commandder of the army
(b) A soldier friend whom Kien meets on the train to Hanoi
(c) A ghost
(d) An old school friend

11. What is it that Kien wants most when he returns from war to Hanoi?
(a) To start work
(b) To see Phuong
(c) To see his father again
(d) To open a shop

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

13. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?
(a) Tranh
(b) Cam
(c) Lan
(d) Hanh

14. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?
(a) At the behest of NATO
(b) To stop the spread of Communism through Asia
(c) To secure trade routes through the Asiatic sea
(d) To defend France

15. In Kien's memories, why had the man 'reverted to the wild'?
(a) Because he had spent too long in the Jungle
(b) Because he had lost his mind in combat
(c) Because he had taken drugs
(d) Because of a secret enemy weapon

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Kien thinking about executing the commandos?

2. Where is Kien when he starts reliving his experiences?

3. Why does the Truck Driver say that it is unsurprising that Kien has bad dreams?

4. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

5. On whose side were the American's fighting during the Vietnam War?

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