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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the older Vietnamese brother in the Auteur's film?
(a) Bon.
(b) Yoon.
(c) Lan.
(d) Binh.

3. Where is the General's store located, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) On Hollywood Boulevard.
(b) On North Broadway.
(c) On Atlantic Avenue.
(d) On Houston Street.

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

5. What food does Madame offer to the narrator when he visits in Chapter 8?
(a) Pho.
(b) Bún bò Huế.
(c) Bahn mi.
(d) Spring rolls.

6. What kind of camera does the narrator describe carrying in the hidden compartment of his rucksack?
(a) A Canon camera.
(b) A Polaroid camera.
(c) An Aigo camera.
(d) A Minox camera.

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

8. What is the dish soap that James Yoon is known for promoting in television commercials?
(a) Sheen.
(b) Sudz.
(c) Cleanse.
(d) Brawn.

9. What food item does the narrator describe missing terribly in his letter to his aunt in Chapter 4?
(a) Soy sauce.
(b) Fish sauce.
(c) Lemongrass.
(d) Pho.

10. On what date did the Fall of Saigon occur?
(a) April 3, 1976.
(b) March 1, 1974.
(c) April 30, 1975.
(d) June 20, 1972.

11. 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) 3.
(d) 10.

12. Who wrote the quote cited in Chapter 1: "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(d) Richard Hedd.

13. Where does the narrator wake up in the hospital after the accident on the movie set?
(a) Manila.
(b) New York.
(c) Saigon.
(d) Bangkok.

14. What was Lana's major in college?
(a) American History.
(b) Biology.
(c) Theater.
(d) Art history.

15. The narrator says in Chapter 11, "The longer I worked on the Movie, the more I was convinced that I was not only a technical consultant on an artistic project, but an infiltrator into a work of" what?
(a) "Master."
(b) "Violence."
(c) "Propaganda."
(d) "Genius."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bon's wife?

2. What is the name of the movie director's assistant?

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

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

5. What character is the Thespian playing in the film?

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