Conversational Vietnamese Quiz: Giving Basic Directions

What this quiz covers

This quiz focuses on Giving Basic Directions, giving you a quick way to practice the rules, question types, and explanations that matter most for Conversational Vietnamese.

How to use this quiz

Try each quiz question before looking at the correct answer. Use the explanations to review missed ideas, then come back to similar questions until the pattern feels familiar.

Question 1

1. Go straight two blocks, turn right at the intersection, walk one more block, the café is on the left next to the pharmacy.
2. Go straight two blocks, turn left at the intersection, walk one more block, the café is on the right next to the pharmacy. (correct answer)
3. Go straight one block, turn left at the intersection, walk two more blocks, the café is on the right next to the pharmacy.
4. Go straight two blocks, turn left at the intersection, walk one more block, the café is on the left next to the bookstore.

Question 2

1. Walk forward past two traffic lights, then turn right; the hotel is the second building on the left, sandwiched between the bank and the restaurant.
2. Continue straight through two traffic lights and turn right at the second one; the hotel is between the bank and the restaurant, on the left side of the street.
3. Pass two traffic lights going straight, turn right at the last one, and look for the hotel — the second building on the left — located between the bank and the restaurant.
4. Walk past two traffic lights, turn right at the first traffic light, and find the hotel as the second building on the left, between the bank and the restaurant. (correct answer)

Question 3

1. 'Ra khỏi khách sạn, rẽ trái, đi thẳng hai dãy nhà, máy ATM ở bên phải, ngay cạnh nhà thuốc màu xanh lá.' (correct answer)
2. 'Ra khỏi khách sạn, rẽ phải, đi thẳng hai dãy nhà, máy ATM ở bên phải, ngay cạnh nhà thuốc màu xanh lá.'
3. 'Ra khỏi khách sạn, rẽ trái, đi thẳng một dãy nhà, máy ATM ở bên trái, ngay cạnh nhà thuốc màu xanh lá.'
4. 'Ra khỏi khách sạn, rẽ trái, đi thẳng hai dãy nhà, máy ATM ở bên trái, đối diện nhà thuốc màu xanh lá.'

Question 4

1. 'Nhà sách ở phía sau rạp chiếu phim' — placing the bookstore behind the cinema from the speaker's current viewpoint and perspective.
2. 'Nhà sách ở bên phải rạp chiếu phim' — indicating the bookstore is to the right side of the cinema as a fixed landmark relationship, regardless of the speaker's facing direction. (correct answer)
3. 'Nhà sách ở đối diện rạp chiếu phim' — indicating the bookstore is directly across from the cinema, on the opposite side of the street or space.
4. 'Nhà sách ở phía trước rạp chiếu phim' — placing the bookstore in front of the cinema, implying it is between the cinema and the approaching person.

Question 5

1. An is correct: after turning left at the flagpole, you are now facing the opposite wall, so the right side of the new corridor is where the library must be, consistent with having passed the cafeteria on the right before the turn.
2. Bình is correct: after turning left at the flagpole, the left side of the new corridor corresponds to the same wall as the pre-turn right side, so the library's position on the left is consistent with the cafeteria having been on the right.
3. Neither can be confirmed correct from the direction words alone, because 'first door on the right' and 'on the left next to the science lab' are mutually exclusive positions that cannot both be true, and no additional layout information is provided. (correct answer)
4. An is more reliable because specifying 'first door on the right' is a more precise landmark reference than 'on your left, next to the science lab,' and greater specificity in directions generally indicates greater accuracy.

Question 6

1. 'Đi thẳng' (go straight), 'bên trái' (on the left, used twice), 'rẽ phải' (turn right), 'ngõ nhỏ' (small alley), and 'số nhà 12' (house number 12) — covering all spatial and directional references in the passage.
2. 'Đi thẳng' (go straight), 'bên trái' (on the left, used twice), 'rẽ phải' (turn right) — these are the only direction and location words; the remaining terms are distance markers, path-type nouns, or address identifiers, not direction words. (correct answer)
3. 'Đi thẳng' (go straight), 'bên trái' (on the left, used once), 'rẽ phải' (turn right), and 'bên phải' (on the right, used once) — the directions include both a left-side and a right-side reference as final location markers.
4. 'Đi thẳng' (go straight), 'rẽ phải' (turn right), 'bên trái' (on the left, used twice), and 'đi thêm' (walk further) — because 'đi thêm' expresses continuation of movement and therefore belongs to the directional vocabulary of the passage.

Question 7

1. 'Ngân hàng ở bên phải bưu điện, và bưu điện ở bên trái ngân hàng.' (The bank is to the right of the post office, and the post office is to the left of the bank.)
2. 'Đi thẳng đến cuối đường, rẽ phải, trường học ở ngay trước mặt bạn.' (Go straight to the end of the road, turn right, the school is directly in front of you.)
3. 'Siêu thị ở bên trái bạn khi bạn đứng trước cổng bệnh viện nhìn vào.' (The supermarket is on your left when you stand in front of the hospital gate looking inward.)
4. 'Rẽ trái ở đèn đỏ, đi thẳng, nhà hàng ở bên phải, đối diện là công viên ở bên phải.' (Turn left at the red light, go straight, the restaurant is on the right, and opposite it is the park also on the right.) (correct answer)