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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. The narrator describes working his first assignment under whose supervision at the National Interrogation Center in Saigon?
(a) The General's.
(b) Bon's.
(c) Claude's.
(d) Man's.

2. Where did Madame organize a Tet celebration, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?
(a) Lafayette County.
(b) Clark County.
(c) Orange County.
(d) Anderson County.

3. What kind of store does the narrator describe the General opening in Chapter 5?
(a) A bakery shop.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) A liquor store.
(d) A shoe store.

4. When did the narrator's family flee to the South after living in a northern hamlet?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

5. What word in the novel refers to the practice of concealing a message within another message?
(a) Lithography.
(b) Steganography.
(c) Stenography.
(d) Patriarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe having broken the Watchman during interrogation in Chapter 11?

2. What does the narrator brush over the letters from his aunt in order to see the hidden messages in Chapter 4?

3. Who is the author of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction?

4. What food item does the narrator describe missing terribly in his letter to his aunt in Chapter 4?

5. For how many years does the narrator say he lived in the villa with the General when the Fall of Saigon occurred in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe the narrator and protagonist of The Sympathizer?

2. Where are the Vietnamese refugees taken after arriving in America in Chapter 4?

3. Who is Bon and what is his relationship to the narrator?

4. What is the first business venture the General undertakes in the U.S.? Why?

5. Who is Claude? How does the narrator know this character?

6. How would you describe the narrator's relationships with his parents?

7. How is the theme of duality introduced in Chapter 1?

8. How is the theme of sympathy explored in Chapter 12?

9. How does the narrator describe "breaking" the Watchman in Chapter 11?

10. How does the narrator describe the task of a spy in Chapter 11?

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