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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the film that the narrator is to advise about?
(a) Apocalypse Now.
(b) The Hamlet.
(c) Plattoon.
(d) Yesterday.

3. Of what ethnicity is the actor who plays Danny Boy in the Auteur's film?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Filipino.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) Chinese.

4. What does the narrator brush over the letters from his aunt in order to see the hidden messages in Chapter 4?
(a) Sugar water.
(b) Salt water.
(c) Iodine.
(d) Milk.

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

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

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

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

9. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?
(a) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(b) Richard Hedd.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Alexandre Dumas.

10. What is the name of the movie director's assistant?
(a) Linh.
(b) Lana.
(c) Violet.
(d) Asia.

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

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

13. How does the narrator describe having broken the Watchman during interrogation in Chapter 11?
(a) By threatening to reveal that the Watchman is a woman.
(b) By threatening to falsely reveal the Watchman is gay.
(c) By threatening to kill the Watchman's family.
(d) By threatening to reveal that the Watchman is communist.

14. On what day of the week does the General's store opening occur in Chapter 5?
(a) Friday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Thursday.

15. The narrator writes to the Commandant in Chapter 7, "We're revolutionaries, and revolutionaries can never be" what?
(a) "Killed."
(b) "Innocent."
(c) "Honest."
(d) "Betrayed."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator describe finally seeing the Auteur's film in Chapter 10?

2. When did Lana come to America to attend college?

3. 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"?

4. What district does the Congressman represent?

5. What business has the General decided to open to raise money for the movement in Chapter 12?

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