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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Kien's friend Tam die?
(a) He was shot in the back
(b) He fell into the swamp
(c) He died defending Kien from a paratrooper
(d) He was covered in Agent Orange

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Kien feel about the process of writing a novel at the start of Part Six?
(a) That it is making him famous
(b) That it is boring and unproductive
(c) That it makes lots of money
(d) That is a worthy and moral process

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

11. Why is Kien afraid to miss his train?
(a) Everyone will think he is a deserter
(b) He doesn't want to let down his father's expectations
(c) He wants to fight
(d) He wants to leave Phuong behind

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

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 musical instrument was Phuong especially good at?
(a) The guitar
(b) The clarinet
(c) The flute
(d) The piano

15. When did Kien's father die?
(a) Before he was born
(b) During the 1990's
(c) During the first air raids to attack Hanoi
(d) During the war

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Kien meet Phuong?

2. What stops this from happening?

3. What is Kien's definition of sacrifice?

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

5. Where do Kien and Phuong go when they first hear about the outbreak of war?

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