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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. How old was the narrator when he swore a blood oath as blood brothers with Bon?
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.
2. Who greets the narrator and Bon when they arrive in Bangkok in Chapter 17?
(a) The Auteur.
(b) The General.
(c) Man.
(d) Claude.
3. What does Bon threaten the shoplifters with in Chapter 15?
(a) A lasso.
(b) A baseball bat.
(c) A knife.
(d) A shotgun.
4. What color beret does the General wear in Chapter 13?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.
5. Whom does the narrator cite in having said "men will die for bits of ribbon pinned to their chests" in Chapter 13?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Chairman Mao.
(c) Rudyard Kipling.
(d) Napoleon Bonaparte.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what time does the narrator arrive at Sonny's apartment to kill him in Chapter 16?
2. What book does the commissar give to the narrator in Chapter 23?
3. What is the usual ration that the narrator receives in prison in Chapter 19?
4. What phrase does the narrator describe as Ho Chi Minh's "empty suit" in Chapter 23?
5. What word from Chapter 19 means having an obstinately uncooperative attitute or discipline?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the answer to the question that the narrator must answer to the commmissar in the end of the novel?
2. What do Lana and Bon discuss at the night club in Chapter 14? How does this conversation impact the narrator?
3. What is the commandant questioning the narrator about in the beginning of Chapter 19?
4. What is significant about Ms. Mori's family photos being set out in Chapter 13?
5. What is the narrator's central internal conflict in the beginning of Chapter 16?
6. Why does Bon insist on returning to Vietnam for the General in Chapter 13?
7. How is the theme of betrayal explored in Chapter 18?
8. How has the narrator's past year in the prison been described in Chapter 19?
9. How does the admiral compare the plight of the troops to Jesus in Chapter 17?
10. What memory of his father's death does the narrator recall in Chapter 18?
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