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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien try to do which alarms his neighbor so much?
(a) He tries to commit suicide
(b) He tries to start a fight
(c) He tries to burn his writings
(d) He tries to burn down the apartment building

2. Where is Kien when he starts reliving his experiences?
(a) The Jungle of Screaming Souls
(b) Saigon
(c) The Forest of Lost Hope
(d) Hanoi

3. What form does Kien's writing take?
(a) Typewriters
(b) Disks and computers
(c) Diaries and Notebooks
(d) Letters

4. How did Kien start on his road to recovery?
(a) He took a job as a body collector
(b) He killed his enemy who had insulted Phuong
(c) He saw the victory of the North Vietnamese against the South
(d) He talked to a doctor

5. Who is Kien's only companion as he starts these remembrances?
(a) The Truck Driver
(b) His father
(c) Cam
(d) Phuong

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Hanoi?

2. How does Kien think his body collecting job is different from his wartime experience?

3. What does the Mute Girl do for Kien's writings?

4. What is Kien's primary method to exorcise his guilt about the Vietnamese War?

5. What is it that Kien wants most when he returns from war to Hanoi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the transport truck driver say it is no wonder that Kien is having bad dreams?

2. What is the significance of where the Mute Girl lives?

3. What happened to Can?

4. Who was Tranh?

5. During what years did the Vietnam War take place?

6. Who is Hanh?

7. Why does Kien write so obsessively?

8. What does Kien do for his friend the Mute Girl?

9. What does Kien do after burning the manuscript?

10. What was the most traumatic sight for Kien at Saigon Airport?

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