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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What characterised the feelings that Kien had for warfare before it happened?
(a) Jealousy
(b) Hatred
(c) Patriotism
(d) Almost like Love

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

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

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

7. In Kien's memories, why was the commander begging to be shot?
(a) Because of the shame of his job
(b) Because he had failed a particular objective
(c) To release him from his suffering
(d) Because he had gone mad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is special about the Mute Girl's apartment?
(a) It always smells nice
(b) Phuong used to own it
(c) It was the one that his father used to own
(d) It is always sunny

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the farmhouse girls?

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

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

4. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

5. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?

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