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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Bon and the narrator go to discuss the narrator's mission with Sonny in Chapter 16?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A billiards hall.
(c) A movie theater.
(d) A coffee shop.

2. What is the first number that Lana performs at the club in Chapter 14?
(a) "Yesterday."
(b) "Black Bird."
(c) "I'd Love You to Want Me."
(d) "Satisfaction."

3. For what crime was the navigator reeducated?
(a) Trying to escape the country by boat.
(b) Trying to assassinate the president.
(c) Killing a communist spy.
(d) Kililng a republic spy.

4. For how long does the narrator say he lived in the north in Vietnam in Chapter 19?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 12 years.

5. What is contained on the jar on the commandant's desk?
(a) An elephant fetus.
(b) Pickled beets.
(c) A baby with two heads.
(d) A gorilla fetus.

6. What word from Chapter 19 means having an obstinately uncooperative attitute or discipline?
(a) Recalcitrant.
(b) Redundant.
(c) Ardent.
(d) Articulate.

7. The narrator begins Chapter 14 saying, "Sometimes the work of a subversive is purposeful, but sometimes, I confess, it is" what?
(a) "Intense."
(b) "Cerebral."
(c) "Accidental."
(d) "Murderous."

8. What does the narrator scream in the end of Chapter 22?
(a) "Nothing."
(b) "Industry."
(c) "I am innocent."
(d) "Everything."

9. How old was the narrator when he swore a blood oath as blood brothers with Bon?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

10. What is the revue that Lana performs for in Chapter 14?
(a) The Bridge.
(b) Fantasia.
(c) Cats.
(d) Milano.

11. How did the narrator's father die?
(a) He was in a car accident.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) He drowned.

12. What kind of gun does the narrator take to kill Sonny with in Chapter 16?
(a) A Vickers machine gun.
(b) A Walther P22.
(c) A M2 Browning.
(d) A Winchester 97.

13. What book does the commissar give to the narrator in Chapter 23?
(a) Leave of Grass.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) Das Kapital.
(d) Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction.

14. What book of Karl Marx's does the commandant cite in Chapter 19?
(a) Das Kapital.
(b) The Povery of Philosophy.
(c) The German Ideology.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

15. Who is the commissar revealed to be in Chapter 19?
(a) The General.
(b) Bon.
(c) The Auteur.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of truck is waiting for Bon and the narrator when they leave the prison in Chapter 23?

2. What movie does the narrator go to see with Bon in Chapter 17?

3. Who leads the narrator's group on their journey across the border in Chapter 18?

4. Where is the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 23?

5. What country has Vietnam invaded and seized in Chapter 23?

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