The Sorrow of War Quizzes

The Sorrow of War Quiz 1

1 When does the novel take place?
1970s

1990s

1960s

[It takes place throughout all of these decades.]
2 The jungle is known as the Jungle of the Screaming...
Dead

Souls

Ghosts

Soldiers
3 In 1976, Kien was
part of an MIA-recovery group

in Cambodia

back in Hanoi

in the hospital
4 What kind of animal did Thinh kill?
A pig

An orangutan

A snake

A tiger
5 What did the canina flower do?
Made the men dream

Created a strong scent

Made the men high

[It had all of these effects.]
6 What did Kien think about when he was high?
Food

Women

Hanoi

The past
7 What does Can tell Kien?
He is up for a leadership position

He is going to desert

He is going to kill himself

He is going to join the ARVN
8 Kien is known for his ____ mien.
salacious

sorrowful

pious

haughty
9 What does Kien think he sees by the stream?
A baby

A ghost

A dog

A girl
10 What are the men in the B3 scout platoon doing at night?
Communing with ghosts

Sneaking off to be with girls

Smoking and drinking

Gambling
11 All the following are true about the girls except:
they went missing

they ran away

they were young and pretty

they lived in the farmhouse
12 What happened to the girls?
They were killed

They ran away

They killed themselves

Unknown
13 Who took the girls?
ARVN soldiers

NVA commandos

Civilians

American soldiers
14 One young commando said he should not be killed for all the following reasons except:
he did not hurt the girls

he was Catholic

he was too young to die

he would tell Kien the commandos' plans
15 Who is Tran Son?
A soldier in Kien's platoon

A friend from Hanoi

A lost commander

The MIA truck driver
16 What does Tran Son do at night?
Enact former battles in his sleep

Talk with the dead

Look for the MIA remains

Dream of his love
17 Kien feels all the following except:
he wishes he could forget everything

he lives between dream and reality

the past is suffocating

he should have never fought in the war
18 Kien feels that the future is "a ____"
lie

facade

dream

joke
19 Kien is almost how old in the most current part of the novel?
40

30

25

50
20 What does Kien do to reconcile himself with the war?
Sing and compose music

Paint

Write a novel

Write poetry
21 Who lives at Doi Mo?
Phuong

Lan

Hoa

Hien
22 Lan tells Kien all the following except:
she plans to leave Doi Mo very soon

she has lost her mother and brothers and infant

Kien can return and stay with her if he wants

she remembered him from the war
23 After the war Kien gets a job in
journalism

medicine

law

teaching
24 Kien's novel was originally going to be about:
the postwar period

the horrors of war

his love of Phuong

his childhood
25 His mother's second husband was a/an
lieutenant in the NVA

poet

musician

politician

How does the truck driver characterize his conversations with the dead?

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The Sorrow of War

by Bao Ninh

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