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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, that causes the Truck Driver to wake him up?
(a) He punches the driver
(b) Cries out in his sleep
(c) He curses
(d) He fires his gun

2. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?
(a) Cambodia
(b) Korea
(c) China
(d) Britain

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

4. When does Kien start writing about the war?
(a) The night after he breaks up with Phuong
(b) Fourteen years later
(c) Twenty years later
(d) When he first signs up at the war office

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Mute Girl feel towards Kien?

2. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?

3. On whose side were the American's fighting during the Vietnam War?

4. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?

5. Who is the central character this Part is devoted to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kien do after burning the manuscript?

2. What happened to Can?

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

4. Where is Hanoi?

5. Who is Lan?

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

7. How many years later is the current narrative?

8. What side is Kien on during the War?

9. Why does Kien and Phuong's relationship turn sour after they reunite?

10. What is the Jungle called that Kien finds himself outside of

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