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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. The commandant tells the narrator in Chapter 19, "you are a communist only in name. In practice, you are" what?
(a) "A traitor."
(b) "A bourgeois intellectual."
(c) "A loathesome murderer."
(d) "A republican victor."

2. What does the navigator say the odds are for successful escape in Chapter 23?
(a) 70/30.
(b) 50/50.
(c) 80/20.
(d) 60/40.

3. What kind of gun does the commissar place in the narrator's hand in Chapter 22?
(a) A Tokarev.
(b) An M32.
(c) A Smith & Wesson 317.
(d) A Skoda 28.

4. What word from Chapter 22 refers to the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation?
(a) Intersection.
(b) Elocution.
(c) Vivisection.
(d) Augument.

5. Where does the narrator carry his copy of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction in Chapter 18?
(a) His jacket pocket.
(b) The false bottom of his rucksack.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His pants pocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bon threaten the shoplifters with in Chapter 15?

2. What book of Karl Marx's does the commandant cite in Chapter 19?

3. Where does the commissar say Bon and the narrator are going to contact Bon's cousin in Chapter 23?

4. How many "apostles" does the admiral say they have in the camp in Chapter 17?

5. Where does the Congressman invite the General in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Man reveal about his sympathies to the narrator in Chapter 22?

4. How is the theme of betrayal explored in Chapter 18?

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

6. What effects has the torture had on the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 22?

7. How has the narrator's past year in the prison been described in Chapter 19?

8. What information does the narrator relate to Man in his letter in Chapter 13?

9. How does the admiral compare the plight of the troops to Jesus in Chapter 17?

10. Where are the narrator and Bon sent after leaving the prison in the end of the novel?

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