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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 is the difference between the writing Kien performs during the day and that which he writes at night?
(a) The day time writing is more compassionate
(b) The day time writing is more legible
(c) The day time writing is more factually accurate
(d) The day time ideas appear contrived and artificial

2. What colour does Kien's father use to paint with as he gets more depressed?
(a) Blue
(b) Yellow
(c) Green
(d) Red

3. 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 a ghost from the war
(c) That he is a long lost friend
(d) That he is actually Phuong

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

5. What stops this from happening?
(a) Kien suddenly feels sick
(b) Kien suddenly has a headache
(c) Kien suddenly feels a pang of guilt
(d) Kien suddenly gets cramp

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Kien and Phuong hide after their train was bombed?

2. Where do Phuong and Kien run off to whilst they are at school?

3. Where did Kien meet Phuong?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where do Kien and Phuong go to escape when they hear about the war?

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

4. Describe Kien's parents

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

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

7. Why does Kien not kill the commandos responsible for the farmhouse massacre?

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

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

10. Why does Kien almost kill himself?

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