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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Asia Soo's father from?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Japan.
(c) Korea.
(d) China.

2. What character is the Thespian playing in the film?
(a) Sergeant Jay Bellamy.
(b) Captain Will Shamus.
(c) Captain Anderson Rockwell.
(d) Sergeant Jay Walters.

3. What is the name of the Vietnamese sister in the Auteur's film?
(a) Lana.
(b) Linh.
(c) Asia.
(d) Mai.

4. Who is the dictator of the Philippines when the narrator leaves in Chapter 1?
(a) Chairman Mao.
(b) Emilio Aguinaldo.
(c) Ferdinand Marcos.
(d) Karl Marx.

5. Where have the narrator and Bon landed in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Guam.
(c) Laos.
(d) The Philippines.

6. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

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

8. To whom is the narrator writing his confession in Chapter 2?
(a) To the General.
(b) To the Commandant.
(c) To the Congressman.
(d) To Bon.

9. What infamous Nazi does the author describe in Chapter 8?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Joseph Goebbels.
(c) Wilhelm Frick.
(d) Frank Hans.

10. To what song does the General go onstage to dance with the performer at the wedding in Chapter 7?
(a) "Black is Black."
(b) "Black Bird."
(c) "Satisfaction."
(d) "Twist and Shout."

11. What film of the Auteur's is described in Chapter 8 as being "about the failure of the American Dream"?
(a) Venice Beach.
(b) Apocalpyse Now.
(c) Hard Knock.
(d) The Thin Red Line.

12. When did Lana come to America to attend college?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1970.

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

14. Of what ethnicity is James Yoon described in Chapter 10?
(a) African American.
(b) Japanese American.
(c) Korean American.
(d) Vietnamese American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a straight, close-fitting silk dress with a high neck?

2. To what religion does Bon ascribe?

3. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?

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?

5. When did the narrator meet Claude?

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