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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. What is the title of the newspaper article Sonny writes about the field maneuvers in Chapter 14?
(a) "War on the Front Lines."
(b) "Communism Arises."
(c) "Move On, War Over."
(d) "Accidental Tourists."

2. Where does the narrator learn that Lana works in Chapter 14?
(a) At an art gallery.
(b) At a hotel.
(c) At a butcher shop.
(d) At a train station.

3. What word from Chapter 23 means seemingly absurd or self-contradictory?
(a) Industrious.
(b) Paradoxical.
(c) Illustrious.
(d) Articulate.

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

5. Where does Sonny say Abe is now in Chapter 13?
(a) Germany.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Japan.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what crime was the navigator reeducated?

2. What kind of gun does the commissar place in the narrator's hand in Chapter 22?

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

4. When did Ho Chi Minh die?

5. What kind of gun does Bon carry as he and the narrator cross the border in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the commandant questioning the narrator about in the beginning of Chapter 19?

2. How has the narrative style changed in Chapter 21? Why?

3. What is symbolized by the narrator's rucksack in the novel?

4. What is significant about Ms. Mori's family photos being set out in Chapter 13?

5. What conflict does the narrator recall with the General as he falls asleep in Chapter 17?

6. What is the narrator's central internal conflict in the beginning of Chapter 16?

7. What memory of his father's death does the narrator recall in Chapter 18?

8. Where does Claude take the narrator and Bon once they arrive in Thailand in Chapter 17?

9. What symbolism is revealed when Man waves at the narrator at the end of his reeducation?

10. What does the narrator confess to Sonny before killing him? Why?

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