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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Phuong finally say to Kien?
(a) That she hates him
(b) That she wants to marry him
(c) That she is better off without him
(d) That she has never loved anyone else

3. Who sends Kien the letter that he receives many years later?
(a) One of the taunting soldiers
(b) The Narrator
(c) Phuong
(d) The Mute Girl

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

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

6. What is Kien's definition of sacrifice?
(a) Friends who would die to save one another
(b) Leaving Phuong
(c) Eating army dinners
(d) Having to be away from home

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

8. Who was Toan?
(a) An old school friend
(b) A neighbor
(c) A fellow member of his platoon who was killed outside of Saigon
(d) A commander of the army

9. Where did Kien meet Phuong?
(a) On the battlefield
(b) At school
(c) In army training
(d) After the war

10. Why does Phuong accompany Kien on the train when they sign up for the war effort?
(a) They want to spend all the time they have left together
(b) She has never been on a train before
(c) To make sure he gets there
(d) She is travelling to her relatives

11. What does Kien do with the culprits of the farmhouse killing?
(a) He bribes them
(b) He executes them
(c) He doesn't execute them
(d) He runs away

12. What does Kien realise is different about Phuong?
(a) She has a new lover
(b) She has a new scar
(c) She has died her hair
(d) She is carrying herself differently

13. What does Kien do the next day?
(a) Reports for duty and begins his war service
(b) Deserts into the Jungle
(c) Joins with the South Vietnamese.
(d) Returns to Hanoi

14. What was the first occasion that Kien had been drunk?
(a) After his sixteenth birthday
(b) After the train got bombed
(c) After the air raid in Hanoi
(d) After the fighting at Saigon aiport

15. Where do Phuong and Kien run off to whilst they are at school?
(a) To South Vietnam
(b) To the beach
(c) To America
(d) To Australia

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Toan be considered a 'rival'?

2. What does 'indoctrination' mean?

3. What does Kien feel about the process of writing a novel at the start of Part Six?

4. Who is Kien's first 'kill' of the War?

5. How are Kien and Phuong separated the very next day?

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