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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 do to the Commandoes when he finds them?
(a) He executes them
(b) He puts them on trial
(c) He takes their weapons away
(d) He spares them

2. Why does Kien find it so difficult to accept Tranh's death?
(a) Because Tranh was always so lucky
(b) Because he loved Tranh dearly
(c) Because he was once so alive and 'vital'
(d) Because Tranh had enough money to buy medicine

3. Where does Kien live in the present day?
(a) In a tenement building
(b) In a cottage
(c) In an apartment complex
(d) In a mansion

4. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?
(a) Gatwick
(b) Hanoi
(c) JFK
(d) Saigon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What political position did the American's Hold?

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

3. How much time passes whilst Kien is away?

4. In Kien's memories, why had the man 'reverted to the wild'?

5. In what years was the Vietnam War fought?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Tranh?

2. Why does Kien write so obsessively?

3. Why does the transport truck driver wake him up at the end of Part 1?

4. What War is discussed in The Sorrow of War?

5. Who is Lan?

6. How do we think the Mute Girl feels for Kien?

7. Why does the Market Place at the beginning of Part 2 disturb him so much?

8. What is Kien warned against by his parents in this section?

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

10. What did Kien remember feeling before the onset of war?

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