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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. What does the narrator scream in the end of Chapter 22?

2. During what years was Ho Chi Minh prime minister of Vietnam?

3. Who leads the narrator's group on their journey across the border in Chapter 18?

4. What does Bon say happened to the Lao farmer in Chapter 23?

5. What does the commandant drink during his meeting with the narrator in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is revealed about the narrator's father's death in Chapter 22?

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

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

8. What is the question that the commissar says the narrator must answer in Chapter 20?

9. What is symbolized in the narrator's dream about the kapok tree in Chapter 13?

10. What is the answer to the question that the narrator must answer to the commmissar in the end of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is life like for the Vietnamese refugees once they arrive in America? Where does the narrator secure assistance and work? How does he get Bon work? Where do the narrator and Bon live?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Man's decision to free the narrator in the end of the novel. What leads Man to this decision? Why does Man not flee with the narrator? Who does flee with the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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