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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?
(a) The South Vietnamese
(b) The British
(c) The Americans
(d) The North Vietnamese

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

3. How many years latter is this account set from the war?
(a) 12
(b) 10
(c) 14
(d) 20

4. What form does Kien's writing take?
(a) Diaries and Notebooks
(b) Typewriters
(c) Letters
(d) Disks and computers

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

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

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

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

9. What does Kien do, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?
(a) He punches the driver
(b) He curses
(c) He fires his gun
(d) Cries out in his sleep

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

11. What political position did the North Vietnamese Hold?
(a) Facist
(b) Anarcho-Syndicalism
(c) Capitalist
(d) Communist

12. What was the last 'fun' memory that Kien remembers having with his troops in Part 1?
(a) Of having a card game with his platoon
(b) Of going out to a bar
(c) Of listening to music
(d) Of telling jokes

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between Hien and Kien?

2. What is Kien's job at the start of The Sorrow of War, while he is in the transport truck?

3. Who was the boy that Kien had feelings for?

4. What is it that Kien wants most when he returns from war to Hanoi?

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

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