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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color pencil does the commandant use because Stalin did, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

2. Where does the commandant describe being held prisoner in Chapter 19?

3. What drinks does the narrator buy for Lana at the club in Chapter 14?

4. What movie does the narrator go to see with Bon in Chapter 17?

5. Where is the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Claude take the narrator and Bon once they arrive in Thailand in Chapter 17?

2. What does the narrator confess to Sonny before killing him? Why?

3. What does Man reveal about his sympathies to the narrator in Chapter 22?

4. What is the question that the commissar says the narrator must answer in Chapter 20?

5. What is symbolized in the narrator's dream about the kapok tree in Chapter 13?

6. What is the answer to the question that the narrator must answer to the commmissar in the end of the novel?

7. What is significant about the newspaper article "Move On, War Over"?

8. How is the commissar described when the narrator finally meets him in Chapter 19?

9. How has the narrative style changed in Chapter 21? Why?

10. What is revealed about the narrator's father's death in Chapter 22?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the General respond when he discovers the courtship between the narrator and Lana? How does the narrator feel about the General's response? How does Madame feel about the situation?

Essay Topic 2

What is life like for the Vietnamese refugees once they arrive in America? Where does the narrator secure assistance and work? How does he get Bon work? Where do the narrator and Bon live?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the methods of torture used on the narrator during "reeducation." What are the effects of these methods? How is the narrator affected both mentally and physically? How is he led to recover?

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