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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 relation was it who urged Kien against Patriotism?
(a) His Uncle
(b) His Mother's Second Husband
(c) His mother
(d) His mother's first husband

2. What political position did the American's Hold?
(a) Socialist
(b) Capitalist
(c) Communist
(d) Anarchic

3. Where is Hanoi?
(a) China
(b) North America
(c) The capital of North Vietnam
(d) The capital of South Vietnam

4. What becomes Kien's 'last enduring obsession?
(a) Hanh
(b) A child's toy
(c) Phuong
(d) The beautiful south Vietnamese soldier who ambushed them

5. What is the term for the sudden remembrances that Kien suffers throughout The Sorrow of War?
(a) Visions
(b) Flashbacks
(c) Deja-Vu
(d) Daydreams

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Mute Girl find Kien attempting to do before he disappears?

2. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?

3. What job did Kien do during the Vietnamese War, which he remembers so vividly?

4. What is Kien doing at the start of Part Three?

5. What sense suddenly gives Kien a memory of his wartime experiences?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who lives above Kien’ s apartment after the war?

4. Who is Hanh?

5. Who is Lan?

6. How many years later is the current narrative?

7. What side is Kien on during the War?

8. Where is Hanoi?

9. Why is Kien so distressed at the start of Part 2?

10. What does Kien try to do to his manuscript that alarms his neighbors so much?

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