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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 'indoctrination' mean?
(a) Teaching students about doctors
(b) Teaching things in threes
(c) Teaching a system of beliefs that limits the students freedom of thought
(d) Allowing students to think for themselves

2. At what times of the day does Kien write?
(a) Any time that he can
(b) Mornings only
(c) Day time
(d) Night-time

3. How does Phuong help Kien to rejoin his unit and avoid being accused of desertion?
(a) She writes a letter to their commander
(b) She makes a phone call to their army base
(c) She gives him money to bribe the guards
(d) She hitches a ride with him to their barracks

4. Who sends Kien the letter that he receives many years later?
(a) One of the taunting soldiers
(b) The Narrator
(c) Phuong
(d) The Mute Girl

5. What profession did Kien's father hold?
(a) That of an artist
(b) That of a tax inspector
(c) An army general
(d) That of a tram driver

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrative of Part Four start?

2. What did this skill reveal to Kien?

3. What does Phuong finally tell Kien about their future in the form of a note?

4. What almost happens between them?

5. What did Phuong have to do during the war in order to survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kien hallucinate about his nurse in Hanoi?

2. What happens to the train that Kien and Phuong eventually catch so that he can return to his unit?

3. What do the characters of Tu and Cam have in common?

4. How many times does Phuong's memories come back to Kien during the war?

5. Why is Kien ridiculed by his fellows in the post war period?

6. Why is the image of the storm symbolic for Kien?

7. Describe Kien's parents

8. Why is Kien taunted by the other soldiers in the abandoned school?

9. Why does Kien refuse to sleep with Phuong before the war?

10. Why does Phuong want Kien to be more like his father?

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