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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job has Bon taken in Chapter 5?
(a) A store clerk position.
(b) A banking position.
(c) A butcher position.
(d) A hotel clerk position.

2. Who is the author of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction?
(a) Richard Hedd.
(b) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Chairman Mao.

3. What is described as "the cue for the evacuation's final phase" in Chapter 5?
(a) "White Christmas."
(b) "Hey Joe."
(c) "The American National Anthem."
(d) "Yesterday."

4. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

5. When did the narrator meet Claude?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Bon's son?

2. What does the narrator claim to be guilty of in his confession in Chapter 5?

3. Where does the narrator say Ms. Mori lives in Chapter 5?

4. What author does the narrator say that Man had introduced him and Bon to in Chapter 1?

5. How old is Ms. Mori when the narrator begins his affair with her?

(see the answer key)

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