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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rowe find the debriefing disturbing?
(a) It is similar to the questioning by his former captors.
(b) It is very detailed.
(c) It makes him worry about his safety.
(d) It forces him to relive his days in the prison.

2. Why do the men buy raw brown sugar?
(a) It is not considered food.
(b) It is cheap.
(c) It is easy to come by.
(d) It tastes good.

3. Rowe arrives at a hospital and is allowed to talk to whom by phone?
(a) His mother and father.
(b) His wife.
(c) His friends.
(d) His children.

4. What is happening to Jim?
(a) He is weakening.
(b) He is becoming angry.
(c) He is growing stronger.
(d) He is beginning to believe the Vietcong.

5. What threatens the camp?
(a) Fire.
(b) Disease.
(c) The American Army.
(d) Famine.

6. Why is Rowe retrieved?
(a) Someone notices he is not Vietnamese.
(b) Someone hears him speaking in English.
(c) Someone decides they want to save him.
(d) Someone decides they want to take a Vietnamese prisoner.

7. Why do the Vietcong continually move those in the camp?
(a) To confuse them.
(b) To weaken them.
(c) To scare them.
(d) To remain out of harm's way.

8. Who tells Rowe that the other three are being released but that Rowe will "rest here" for the foreseeable future?
(a) The camp commander.
(b) The camp translator.
(c) A Vietcong soldier.
(d) The three men.

9. One older woman questions Rowe's captors. What does she ask?
(a) Why he has been caught.
(b) What they plan on doing with him.
(c) Why he is still alive.
(d) Why he looks as if he is not fed enough.

10. At first, what do these men plan to do to Rowe?
(a) Ignore him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Capture him.
(d) Save him.

11. Rowe learns that he has been promoted to what during his absence?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Major.
(d) General.

12. Rowe is continually pressed to do what?
(a) Translate for them.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Write a statement siding with the National Liberation Front.
(d) Tell the Vietcong of the American Army's location.

13. Why are the men not allowed to buy food?
(a) They catch enough fish that they do not need other food.
(b) The Vietcong are providing their food.
(c) They need other supplies more desperately.
(d) There is no food to buy.

14. What does Rowe's captor do now that he believes Rowe?
(a) He splits off with him away from the rest of the group.
(b) He calls for more Vietcong.
(c) He helps Rowe find Americans.
(d) He lets Rowe run away.

15. Alone, Rowe is initially ___________________.
(a) Excited.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Angry.
(d) Depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will be sold by the guards?

2. How does Rowe draw attention to himself?

3. 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?

4. Using their own slang, what does Rowe ask the men to do?

5. When does Rowe believe it seems worse to be on the verge of death?

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