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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Under Asian communism, everything but" what "is free"?
(a) "Life."
(b) "Politics."
(c) "Death."
(d) "Sex."

2. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?
(a) Watership Down.
(b) The Last Battle.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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

4. Where does the Department Chair say he met his wife in Chapter 4?
(a) Laos.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Japan.

5. Who gave the narrator his rucksack that he packs and leaves with in Chapter 1?
(a) Bon.
(b) The General.
(c) Man.
(d) Claude.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the narrator writing his confession in Chapter 2?

3. What is described as "the cue for the evacuation's final phase" in Chapter 5?

4. Whom does the narrator say actually came up with the question attributed to Lenin in Chapter 1: "What is to be done?"

5. For how many years does the narrator say he lived in the villa with the General when the Fall of Saigon occurred in Chapter 1?

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