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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 start a fight
(b) He tries to commit suicide
(c) He tries to burn down the apartment building
(d) He tries to burn his writings

2. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?
(a) That he should be concentrating his writing on his present situation rather than the past
(b) He should be submitting it to publishers
(c) He should be writing more often
(d) He should be trying to publish in magazines

3. What political position did the North Vietnamese Hold?
(a) Capitalist
(b) Communist
(c) Facist
(d) Anarcho-Syndicalism

4. What happens between Hien and Kien?
(a) They argue
(b) They make love
(c) They fight
(d) They gamble

5. How much time passes whilst Kien is away?
(a) Fourteen years
(b) A year
(c) A week
(d) Three years

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the farmhouse girls?

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

3. Why did Kien visit Tranh at the end of this chapter?

4. What relation was it who urged Kien against Patriotism?

5. What terrain does most of the war take place in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Hanh?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Lan?

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

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