View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older is the narrator than Lana?
(a) 9 years older.
(b) 5 years older.
(c) 2 years older.
(d) 12 years older.

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

3. What river does the narrator describe in the distance in Chapter 18?
(a) The Mekong River.
(b) The Red River.
(c) The Perfume River.
(d) The Saigon River.

4. How many children does the narrator describe the General having in Chapter 1?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 19, "What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is" what?
(a) "On its way."
(b) "Already over."
(c) "Inevitable."
(d) "With ourselves."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is the young student that the narrator describes discussing Mao with him and Man in Chapter 11?

3. Of what ethnicity is James Yoon described in Chapter 10?

4. What does Bon threaten the shoplifters with in Chapter 15?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 220 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample