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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 Beatles' song does the narrator describe singing in the bar with Man and Bon in Chapter 1?
(a) "Help!"
(b) "Yesterday."
(c) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
(d) "Black Bird."

2. What infamous Nazi does the author describe in Chapter 8?
(a) Frank Hans.
(b) Wilhelm Frick.
(c) Joseph Goebbels.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

3. During what years was Ho Chi Minh prime minister of Vietnam?
(a) 1945-1955.
(b) 1942-1946.
(c) 1955-1972.
(d) 1936-1945.

4. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?
(a) Alexandre Dumas.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(d) Richard Hedd.

5. What job has Bon taken in Chapter 5?
(a) A butcher position.
(b) A banking position.
(c) A store clerk position.
(d) A hotel clerk position.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what song does the General go onstage to dance with the performer at the wedding in Chapter 7?

3. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?

4. The narrator writes to the Commandant in Chapter 7, "We're revolutionaries, and revolutionaries can never be" what?

5. What food item does the narrator describe missing terribly in his letter to his aunt in Chapter 4?

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