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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Phuong have to do during the war in order to survive?
(a) Become a prostitute
(b) Become a thief
(c) Become a killer
(d) Become a smuggler

2. What does Phuong want Kien to be?
(a) A famous politician
(b) A famous general
(c) More like his father
(d) More like his mother

3. What 'peaceful' memory of the war does Kien think about in this Part?
(a) Gambling with his platoon
(b) Their platoon's trip to Hanoi
(c) Smoking cigarettes
(d) Their platoon's trip to a southern farm

4. Who is Hoa?
(a) A young female guide who sacrifices herself for Kien and his platoon
(b) A friend of Phuong's
(c) Kien's childhood sweetheart
(d) Kien's second in command

5. Where did Kien go, many years after the war had ended?
(a) To China
(b) To Australia
(c) To where Hoa died
(d) To America

6. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?
(a) Four times
(b) Fourteen times
(c) Three times
(d) Twice

7. What object does Kien receive years later?
(a) Painting
(b) Medal
(c) Letter
(d) Military-issued gun

8. What profession did Kien's father hold?
(a) An army general
(b) That of an artist
(c) That of a tax inspector
(d) That of a tram driver

9. How does Phuong help Kien to rejoin his unit and avoid being accused of desertion?
(a) She makes a phone call to their army base
(b) She hitches a ride with him to their barracks
(c) She gives him money to bribe the guards
(d) She writes a letter to their commander

10. Where does Kien find Phuong after the attack on the train?
(a) Hiding
(b) Bathing
(c) Sleeping
(d) Talking to another man

11. What almost happens between them?
(a) They almost run away together
(b) They almost make love
(c) They almost argue
(d) They almost get married

12. What does Kien recognise about the driver of the tram on his return home from the bar?
(a) That he is a ghost from the war
(b) It is the father of Toan
(c) That he is actually Phuong
(d) That he is a long lost friend

13. Where does Kien go in Part Five to reminisce about the War?
(a) The graveyard
(b) Saigon
(c) The Balcony Cafe
(d) The cinema

14. What colour does Kien's father use to paint with as he gets more depressed?
(a) Yellow
(b) Blue
(c) Red
(d) Green

15. Where does the narrative of Part Four start?
(a) With Kien fighting
(b) With Kien writing
(c) From Phuong's point of view
(d) Before Kien was born

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do the next day?

2. Why does Phuong accompany Kien on the train when they sign up for the war effort?

3. What does Kien do with the culprits of the farmhouse killing?

4. What does the letter urge him to do?

5. What did this skill reveal to Kien?

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