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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what religion does Bon ascribe?

2. Where is the General's store located, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

3. What film of the Auteur's is described in Chapter 8 as being "about the failure of the American Dream"?

4. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Under Asian communism, everything but" what "is free"?

5. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe "breaking" the Watchman in Chapter 11?

2. What does the narrator fear when he is called in to speak with the General at the opening of the store in Chapter 5? Why?

3. What are the narrator's main duties on the set of The Hamlet?

4. Where are the Vietnamese refugees taken after arriving in America in Chapter 4?

5. Who is Sofia Mori? How does the narrator meet this character?

6. How is the theme of duality introduced in Chapter 1?

7. What is the narrator's relationship to the General?

8. How is the theme of religion explored in Chapter 5?

9. Who is Bon and what is his relationship to the narrator?

10. How is the theme of sympathy explored in Chapter 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the assassination of the crapulent major. What leads the General to order his murder? Who assists the narrator in committing the execution? Why? How does the narrator feel about this action?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of misrepresentation or lack of representation of Vietnamese in Vietnam War films produced in the West. How is this theme developed through the script of The Hamlet?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of duality in The Sympathizer. How does the author establish this theme in the first lines of the novel? How does the theme of duality evolve throughout the story? What symbolism relates to this theme?

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