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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 word in the book refers to a woman professionally trained to assist a woman in childbirth?
(a) Maitre' d.
(b) Entourage.
(c) Ashana.
(d) Doula.

2. Where do the narrator and Bon go to see Lana sing in Chapter 14?
(a) The Roosevelt Hotel.
(b) The Club Paltry.
(c) The Four Seasons.
(d) The Bar Cerullo.

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

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

5. How many marines accompany the narrator and Bon across the border in Chapter 18?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the commissar offer the narrator to drink when he visits him for his last meeting in Chapter 23?

2. What is the revue that Lana performs for in Chapter 14?

3. Where does the General say his men were surrounded when he was taken to a Communist prison camp in Chapter 16?

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

5. Where do the narrator and Bon change planes on their trip to Thailand in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bon insist on returning to Vietnam for the General in Chapter 13?

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

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

4. What is revealed in the jar on the commandant's desk? What does it symbolize?

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

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

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

8. What is significant about the newspaper article "Move On, War Over"?

9. What conflict takes place between the narrator and Sonny in Chapter 13?

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

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