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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. What did Kien's father warn him against?
(a) The Americans
(b) Going into Politics
(c) Patriotism
(d) Marrying

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

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

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

10. Why was Kien thinking about executing the commandos?
(a) They were fighting for the Americans
(b) They ambushed his platoon
(c) They insulted Phuong
(d) They killed civilians

11. How does Kien think his body collecting job is different from his wartime experience?
(a) Body Collecting is more dangerous
(b) Body Collecting is a moral thing to do
(c) Body Collecting pays better
(d) Body Collecting has no value to it

12. 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

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

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

15. Who lives above Kien?
(a) The Mute Girl
(b) The Old Lady
(c) The Blind Boy
(d) The Deaf Girl

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kien get to know Lan during the war?

2. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?

3. What happens to Kien's manuscript during this time that he is away?

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

5. Who was Tranh?

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