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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 carry his copy of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction in Chapter 18?

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

3. How did the narrator's father die?

4. What book does the commissar give to the narrator in Chapter 23?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is significant about Ms. Mori's family photos being set out in Chapter 13?

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

4. What conflict does the narrator recall with the General as he falls asleep in Chapter 17?

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

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

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

8. How is the commissar described when the narrator finally meets him in Chapter 19?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the narrative and language styles of The Sympathizer. What is the framing device that is used to set up the story? From whose point of view is the story related? How would the novel differ if told from a different narrative style?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the events surrounding the Fall of Saigon. When did the Fall of Saigon occur? For how many years was the Vietnam War fought? How does the author depict these events in The Sympathizer?

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