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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Auteur's gardener?
(a) Sonny.
(b) Danny Boy.
(c) Jose.
(d) Jason.

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

3. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. Where does Lana attend college?
(a) Rutgers, the University of New Jersey.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) The University of California at Berkeley.
(d) New York University.

5. What does the narrator say his mother called him in Chapter 2?
(a) "Her love child."
(b) "Her tree of life."
(c) "A bastard."
(d) "A child prodigy."

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the Department Chair described as in Chapter 4?

2. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?

3. What job has Bon taken in Chapter 5?

4. What is Ms. Mori's first name?

5. Who is the woman that Claude was forced to leave behind when he fled Saigon?

(see the answer key)

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