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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the grizzled captain say he lost contact with his family in Chapter 13?
(a) Can Tho.
(b) Hai Phong.
(c) Da Nang.
(d) Ha Noi.

2. Where did the narrator, Bon, and Man swear their blood oath?
(a) In a tamarind grove.
(b) In a rice paddy.
(c) In a salich grove.
(d) In an elm grove.

3. Where is the General's store located, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) On Hollywood Boulevard.
(b) On Houston Street.
(c) On Atlantic Avenue.
(d) On North Broadway.

4. Whom does the narrator say actually came up with the question attributed to Lenin in Chapter 1: "What is to be done?"
(a) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Chairman Mao.
(d) Karl Marx.

5. The narrator writes to the Commandant in Chapter 7, "We're revolutionaries, and revolutionaries can never be" what?
(a) "Innocent."
(b) "Killed."
(c) "Betrayed."
(d) "Honest."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Congressman say that the movie is about that he is advising on in Chapter 7?

2. What does the word "epicurean" mean in Chapter 1?

3. What word from Chapter 15 refers to a celestial nymph?

4. Who awaits the narrator when he arrives back in the U.S. from the movie set in Chapter 12?

5. Where is Asia Soo's mother from?

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