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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator say actually came up with the question attributed to Lenin in Chapter 1: "What is to be done?"
(a) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Chairman Mao.

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

3. What word from Chapter 15 refers to a celestial nymph?
(a) Aspara.
(b) Delphine.
(c) Dorani.
(d) Augustis.

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

5. During what years was Ho Chi Minh president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam?
(a) 1950-1969.
(b) 1955-1962.
(c) 1962-1972.
(d) 1945-1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose gold-painted bust sits in the commissar's office?

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

3. Who awaits the narrator when he arrives back in the U.S. from the movie set in Chapter 12?

4. Where does the affectless lieutenant describe "very evil communists" in Chapter 17?

5. What color pencil does the commandant use because Stalin did, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

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