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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, p. 211-217.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kien realise is different about Phuong?
(a) She has died her hair
(b) She has a new scar
(c) She is carrying herself differently
(d) She has a new lover

2. What Point of View perspective does the neighbor occupy?
(a) The first person, past tense
(b) The Fourth person
(c) The Third person, present tense
(d) The Second person

3. Why does The Mute Girl have such difficulty putting together Kien's manuscript?
(a) There is no structure to his story
(b) She is blind
(c) It is written on the walls
(d) She cannot find the pages

4. What does Kien think writing will achieve for him?
(a) It will show the world what Vietnam went through
(b) It will make him rich
(c) It will make him famous
(d) It transforms his experiences and memories and makes sense of them

5. Just before the outbreak of the Vietnam conflict, who was the enemy that Vietnam was about to go to war with?
(a) China
(b) Cambodia
(c) Korea
(d) Britain

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrative of Part Four start?

2. Where do Phuong and Kien run off to whilst they are at school?

3. What 'peaceful' memory of the war does Kien think about in this Part?

4. What happens to the train that Phuong and Kien eventually get on?

5. Who 'won' the Vietnam War?

(see the answer key)

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