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

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

3. What did Phuong have to do during the war in order to survive?
(a) Become a thief
(b) Become a killer
(c) Become a smuggler
(d) Become a prostitute

4. What does Kien recognise about the driver of the tram on his return home from the bar?
(a) It is the father of Toan
(b) That he is actually Phuong
(c) That he is a long lost friend
(d) That he is a ghost from the war

5. What did this skill reveal to Kien?
(a) That she is not designed for warfare
(b) That she comes from a wealthy family
(c) That Phuong was destined to be a troubled soul
(d) That she will be famous one day

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kien do the next day?

2. What perspective is the first part of this Part written from?

3. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?

4. What musical instrument was Phuong especially good at?

5. How are Kien and Phuong separated the very next day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Kien's first 'kill' of the war?

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

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

5. Why was it lucky that Phuong and Kien missed the train just as war started?

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

7. What musical instrument did Phuong play as a child, which indicates to Kien that she is a troubled soul?

8. Describe Kien's parents

9. What happens to Phuong on that train?

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

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