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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Kien dream about in hospital?
(a) His pet dog
(b) His childhood friend
(c) His lover, Phuong
(d) His mother

4. Who else frequents the Balcony Cafe?
(a) Dancers
(b) Musicians
(c) Other ex-soldiers
(d) Americans

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

6. What happens to Phuong after the train is derailed?
(a) She is injured in the crash
(b) She is molested by other soldiers
(c) She runs away
(d) She disappears

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

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

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

10. What does Kien discover about his fathers painting when he goes to warn him?
(a) That he sold them
(b) That he faked them
(c) That he burnt them all
(d) That he was rich

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

12. Why does Kien almost attack the taunting soldiers in the abandoned hospital?
(a) They make jokes about Phuong
(b) They make jokes about his father
(c) They have stolen his clothes
(d) They are members of the South Vietnamese Army

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Kien and Phuong hide after their train was bombed?

2. What is Kien's definition of sacrifice?

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

4. Where does Kien find Phuong after the attack on the train?

5. What do Kien and his platoon realize when they visit the South Vietnamese farm?

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