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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where do Kien and Phuong go when they first hear about the outbreak of war?
(a) The barracks
(b) The train station
(c) The school
(d) The beach

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

7. At what times of the day does Kien write?
(a) Any time that he can
(b) Night-time
(c) Mornings only
(d) Day time

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

9. Who is Kien's first 'kill' of the War?
(a) South Vietnamese civilian
(b) American soldier
(c) The Sailor on the Train
(d) North Vietnamese commando

10. What does Kien often wonder about his past colleagues?
(a) How he can contact them
(b) How many are still in the army
(c) How many now lead settled and peaceful lives
(d) If they are still alive

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

12. What do Kien's neighbors feel about Kien?
(a) They think that he is a spy
(b) They distrust him
(c) They like him
(d) They ridicule him

13. What stops this from happening?
(a) Kien suddenly has a headache
(b) Kien suddenly gets cramp
(c) Kien suddenly feels sick
(d) Kien suddenly feels a pang of guilt

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

15. What does Phuong urge Kien to do after they hear the siren?
(a) To fight the American menace
(b) To stay with her; to desert the army
(c) To take cover
(d) To leave Vietnam

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else frequents the Balcony Cafe?

2. Why does Kien write in the post war period?

3. Why does Kien make his first 'kill'?

4. What does Phuong want Kien to be?

5. What does Phuong finally say to Kien?

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