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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rowe knows that there might come a point at which he is released but hates the thought of what?
(a) Waiting until then.
(b) Where his captors will release him.
(c) Allowing his captors to hold that power over him.
(d) Being left alone.

2. The prisoners, including Rowe, are instructed to do what?
(a) Give information about the U.S.
(b) Call home.
(c) Write letters home.
(d) Learn Vietnamese.

3. John and Rowe have bouts of what which prompts some rudimentary medical care?
(a) Kidney failure.
(b) Heart failure.
(c) Intestinal failure.
(d) Liver failure.

4. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) The lines he has in his hands.
(b) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(c) The way in which he tells the story.
(d) His fluent Vietnamese.

5. What do the guards do?
(a) They throw Ben's body in the river.
(b) They dig up the body.
(c) They take the body away.
(d) They punish Rowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Then Ben becomes listless and Rowe sees the signs of what?

2. When it becomes evident that Dave is going to die, what does Rowe do?

3. The story returns to when?

4. How does Rowe find that he is about to be moved to "the Zone" where he would do as commanded or die?

5. The next American brought to the camp is Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes who has been in captivity for how long?

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