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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 Phuong finally say to Kien?
(a) That she wants to marry him
(b) That she is better off without him
(c) That she has never loved anyone else
(d) That she hates him

2. Before Kien started frequenting the Cafe, how many times in his life had he been drunk before?
(a) Twice
(b) Four times
(c) Three times
(d) Fourteen times

3. What do Kien's neighbors feel about Kien?
(a) They like him
(b) They think that he is a spy
(c) They ridicule him
(d) They distrust him

4. What do Kien and his platoon realize when they visit the South Vietnamese farm?
(a) They deserve to be invaded
(b) They are in league with the Americans
(c) The farm is a secret army base
(d) They are normal people

5. What perspective is the first part of this Part written from?
(a) Second Person
(b) The Third Person Perspective
(c) Fourth Person
(d) First person

Short Answer Questions

1. What colour does Kien's father use to paint with as he gets more depressed?

2. What does Kien often wonder about his past colleagues?

3. Why does Kien write in the post war period?

4. Who sends Kien the letter that he receives many years later?

5. How does Phuong help Kien to rejoin his unit and avoid being accused of desertion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolic about the farm that Kien and his comrades visit?

2. At what bar does Kien meet the young prostitute and other ex-soldiers from the war?

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

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

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

6. What is the significance of the tram driver who takes Kien home from the cafe?

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

8. Describe Kien's parents

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

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

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