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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, at what base in Vietnam did the narrator say that he worked with many Americans?
(a) Plantation.
(b) Pleiku.
(c) Holloway.
(d) Bien Hoa.

2. What can Ho Chi Minh mean according to Francine?
(a) Light.
(b) Beautiful One.
(c) Very intelligent starch-paste.
(d) Lost Garbage.

3. To whom did the Chapter 1 narrator lose his wife?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Brother.
(c) Spy.
(d) Cripple.

4. Where was the GI from in Chapter 4 that Miss Noi remembers?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Texas.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Mississippi.

5. Where does the Chapter 1 narrator’s ex-wife live?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator when she tells her story in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the government program that allows a longtime, hard-core Viet Cong to switch sides?

3. In Chapter 7, how old was the narrator when he married?

4. In Chapter 2, how old was the narrator when her grandfather died?

5. What does Fran tell her friends that her name is?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Vietnam, how would men react when they saw Buom on the street?

2. How does Francine describe the French cemetery in Saigon?

3. Who is the narrator of the story in Chapter 2?

4. What does Doctor Joseph tell the narrator to do to stop the man who is having an affair with the narrator’s wife?

5. How does Mr. Green die in Chapter 2?

6. What do Thieu and the former President of the former Republic of Vietnam have in common?

7. How did the Chapter 1 narrator lose his wife?

8. How did Miss Noi get to America?

9. What is so special about apples for Miss Noi?

10. What films are frequently shown in the officers’ club that the Chapter 1 narrator does not enjoy?

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