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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 river does the narrator describe in the distance in Chapter 18?

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

3. Where does the Congressman invite the General in Chapter 15?

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

5. The red banner in the commissar's office says "Nothing is more precious than" what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Abe's story related in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

8. How is the theme of betrayal explored in Chapter 18?

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

10. What do Lana and Bon discuss at the night club in Chapter 14? How does this conversation impact the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the narrator and Bon's capture in Thailand. What mission are they on when they are captured? Who captures them? Where are they taken after capture?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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