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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 'indoctrination' mean?
(a) Teaching students about doctors
(b) Teaching a system of beliefs that limits the students freedom of thought
(c) Allowing students to think for themselves
(d) Teaching things in threes

2. What musical instrument was Phuong especially good at?
(a) The clarinet
(b) The piano
(c) The flute
(d) The guitar

3. What does Phuong taunt Kien about becoming?
(a) A pacifist
(b) A communist
(c) A capitalist
(d) A killer

4. Where does Kien go in Part Five to reminisce about the War?
(a) The Balcony Cafe
(b) The cinema
(c) The graveyard
(d) Saigon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops this from happening?

2. What is it that Kien wants most when he returns from war to Hanoi?

3. What clue is there for the narrator that Kien will know peace?

4. After the war, why does Phuong and Kien's second attempt at a relationship fail?

5. What does Kien worry he should be doing with his writing?

(see the answer key)

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