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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the film that the narrator is to advise about?
(a) Plattoon.
(b) The Hamlet.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) Apocalypse Now.

3. To what song does the General go onstage to dance with the performer at the wedding in Chapter 7?
(a) "Twist and Shout."
(b) "Black is Black."
(c) "Satisfaction."
(d) "Black Bird."

4. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?
(a) Lithography.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Stenography.
(d) Steganography.

5. What author is cited in the narrative as saying "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Alexandre Dumas.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Karl Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Auteur's gardener?

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

3. To what religion does Bon ascribe?

4. What was the narrator's father's profession?

5. What kind of store does the narrator describe the General opening in Chapter 5?

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