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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. During what years was Ho Chi Minh prime minister of Vietnam?
(a) 1946-1962.
(b) 1959-1965.
(c) 1945-1955.
(d) 1962-1972.
2. How did the narrator's father die?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He was stabbed.
(c) He drowned.
(d) He was in a car accident.
3. What is contained on the jar on the commandant's desk?
(a) Pickled beets.
(b) A gorilla fetus.
(c) An elephant fetus.
(d) A baby with two heads.
4. When did Ho Chi Minh die?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1992.
5. Whom does the narrator cite in having said "men will die for bits of ribbon pinned to their chests" in Chapter 13?
(a) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Chairman Mao.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color do the narrator and his entourage wear as they cross the border in Chapter 18?
2. The commandant tells the narrator in Chapter 19, "you are a communist only in name. In practice, you are" what?
3. For how long has the narrator been imprisoned since the ambush in the beginning of Chapter 19?
4. When did Chairman Mao die?
5. What is the usual ration that the narrator receives in prison in Chapter 19?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is symbolized by the narrator's rucksack in the novel?
2. Why does Bon insist on returning to Vietnam for the General in Chapter 13?
3. What memory of his father's death does the narrator recall in Chapter 18?
4. What effects has the torture had on the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 22?
5. What is revealed in the jar on the commandant's desk? What does it symbolize?
6. What does the narrator confess to Sonny before killing him? Why?
7. What does Man reveal about his sympathies to the narrator in Chapter 22?
8. Where are the narrator and Bon sent after leaving the prison in the end of the novel?
9. What is the question that the commissar says the narrator must answer in Chapter 20?
10. How is Abe's story related in Chapter 13?
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