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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?
(a) Newport Beach.
(b) Huntington Beach.
(c) Santa Ana.
(d) San Clementine.

2. How old was the communist agent with the papers in her mouth when she was arrested?
(a) 19.
(b) 32.
(c) 22.
(d) 26.

3. 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) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. What is described as "the cue for the evacuation's final phase" in Chapter 5?
(a) "Hey Joe."
(b) "Yesterday."
(c) "White Christmas."
(d) "The American National Anthem."

5. Where does the narrator describe attending a wedding in Chapter 7?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Westminster.
(d) San Diego.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Claude described as in Chapter 1?

2. On what date did the Fall of Saigon occur?

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

4. What job has Bon taken in Chapter 5?

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

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