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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film of the Auteur's is described in Chapter 8 as "A critically lauded movie about the travails of Greek American youth in the inflamed streets of Detroit"?
(a) The Thin Red Line.
(b) Hard Knock.
(c) Watership Down.
(d) Venice Beach.

2. What district does the Congressman represent?
(a) Orange County.
(b) Siskiyou County.
(c) Trinity County.
(d) Kings County.

3. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?
(a) Lithography.
(b) Steganography.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) Stenography.

4. 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?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

5. 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) Karl Marx.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator claim to be guilty of in his confession in Chapter 5?

2. Where does Lana say she'd like to live if not in Los Angeles in Chapter 14?

3. Where does the narrator carry his copy of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction in Chapter 18?

4. Where do Bon and the narrator go to discuss the narrator's mission with Sonny in Chapter 16?

5. During what years was Ho Chi Minh prime minister of Vietnam?

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