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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When does the Mute Girl realise that their relationship is over?
(a) When Kien talks about Phuong
(b) When she finds that he has disappeared
(c) When Kien spends too much time writing
(d) When Kien starts crying
2. What does Kien's father think Patriotim is opposed to, as seen in his quote?
(a) Life
(b) Democracy
(c) Capitalism
(d) Communism
3. What political position did the North Vietnamese Hold?
(a) Anarcho-Syndicalism
(b) Facist
(c) Communist
(d) Capitalist
4. Why was Lan so sorrowful towards Kien when they finally met each other once again?
(a) Because of her family
(b) Because they could have been lovers
(c) Because of Kien's scars
(d) Because of what has happened to her home
5. What was Kien’s father’s job before the war?
(a) Soldier
(b) Artist
(c) School Teacher
(d) Historian
6. What is it that Kien wants most when he returns from war to Hanoi?
(a) To see his father again
(b) To start work
(c) To open a shop
(d) To see Phuong
7. Who were responsible for the farmhouse girl's deaths?
(a) Kien's own platoon
(b) The Americans
(c) North Vietnamese Commandoes
(d) The South Vietnamese
8. In Kien's memories, why had the man 'reverted to the wild'?
(a) Because he had lost his mind in combat
(b) Because he had taken drugs
(c) Because he had spent too long in the Jungle
(d) Because of a secret enemy weapon
9. Why did the American government go to War in Vietnam?
(a) To stop the spread of Communism through Asia
(b) To defend France
(c) To secure trade routes through the Asiatic sea
(d) At the behest of NATO
10. Where does Kien live in the present day?
(a) In a mansion
(b) In a tenement building
(c) In a cottage
(d) In an apartment complex
11. What Point of view is this chapter written in?
(a) The fourth point of view
(b) The Third point of view
(c) The Second point of view
(d) The first person and the third person perspective
12. What airport did Kien find himself in at the end of the war?
(a) JFK
(b) Saigon
(c) Hanoi
(d) Gatwick
13. When does Kien start writing about the war?
(a) The night after he breaks up with Phuong
(b) When he first signs up at the war office
(c) Twenty years later
(d) Fourteen years later
14. Why does the Truck Driver say that it is unsurprising that Kien has bad dreams?
(a) Because they are in the Jungle
(b) Because he has had a bad war
(c) Because of the time of night
(d) Because they are older men now
15. What terrain does most of the war take place in?
(a) Desert
(b) Mountain
(c) Sea
(d) Jungles and Mountains
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kien try to do which alarms his neighbor so much?
2. How does Kien think his body collecting job is different from his wartime experience?
3. What did the character of Can try to do?
4. In Kien's memories, why was the commander begging to be shot?
5. What is special about the Mute Girl's apartment?
This section contains 568 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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