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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. Where does the narrator take the General and Madame to the Congressman's house for dinner in Chapter 7?

2. Where have the narrator and Bon landed in the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. What character is the Thespian playing in the film?

4. Where is Asia Soo's mother from?

5. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How would you describe the narrator's relationship with the Auteur?

3. Who is Claude? How does the narrator know this character?

4. Whom does the narrator become entranced by at the wedding in Chapter 7? Why?

5. Who is Madame? How would you describe this character?

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

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

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

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

10. How would you describe the narrator's relationships with his parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Bon insist on returning to Vietnam to fight for the General? Why does the narrator try to convince him otherwise? What ultimately leads to the narrator's decision to accompany Sonny to Vietnam?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrator's revisions on his confession. Why is the commandant insistent that the narrator revise the work? What are his criticisms of the work? How does the narrator appease him?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the methods of torture used on the narrator during "reeducation." What are the effects of these methods? How is the narrator affected both mentally and physically? How is he led to recover?

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