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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Frenchman who interviewed John want him to do?
(a) Offer classified information.
(b) Tell the truth about being a prisoner.
(c) Speak against the United States.
(d) Escape.

2. How many Americans were prisoners with John?
(a) He was the only one.
(b) Over 80.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

3. What did John do to Bob?
(a) He stole his washrag.
(b) He took a beating for him.
(c) He helped him escape.
(d) He gave him his own washrag when Bob was suffering.

4. How did Jack respond to the opinions of those under his command?
(a) He was interested in hearing them and truly listened.
(b) He only listened to the officers under his command.
(c) He thought that other ideas were ridiculous.
(d) He refused to listen to them.

5. What health issue did John first struggle with when he roomed with Bud?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Croup.
(d) Dyssentary.

6. How did John feel during the months after the Vietnamese offered his release?
(a) He lived in trepidation.
(b) He regretted his choice.
(c) He was happy with his choice.
(d) He felt at peace.

7. How many children did Carol and John have?
(a) 3.
(b) They couldn't have any.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

8. What happened after John's actions during the Christmas Eve service in 1968?
(a) He was put into solitary confinement.
(b) He was beaten.
(c) His family wrote to him.
(d) A fellow soldier reminded him of how much God loved him.

9. What information did John give his interrogators?
(a) No important information.
(b) He confessed everything.
(c) He didn't tell them anything.
(d) He pretended to speak another language.

10. What did John think as he ejected from the plane over Hanoi?
(a) He couldn't think because he was unconscious.
(b) That he should followed his training.
(c) He thought about his family.
(d) He thought the war was a nightmare.

11. What position was John's father assuming when John was offered freedom?
(a) Commander-in-Chief, Pacific.
(b) Three Star General, Pacific.
(c) Three Star General, Atlantic.
(d) Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic.

12. Where did Jack ask to have his change of command ceremony?
(a) On the USS Oriskany.
(b) In Hanoi.
(c) In a private ceremony in his living room.
(d) Back in the United States.

13. What did the Vietnamese plan to do with John's release?
(a) Kill him right before release.
(b) Renege on their offer.
(c) Kill him right after release.
(d) Shame his father.

14. How did Jack react to wartime situations that became personal?
(a) He ignored orders if they went against his personal wishes.
(b) He didn't let his personal life interfere with the country's needs.
(c) He worked the politics to his best personal advantage.
(d) He didn't even think about his personal life.

15. What was the result of having a famous father for John?
(a) He was able to eat with the enemy.
(b) He was treated better than other prisoners.
(c) He was released.
(d) He was treated more harsly than other prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jack feel about the way America was fighting the Vietnam War?

2. What did the prisoners call the mayor of Hanoi's official residence?

3. What was John supposed to do in Hanoi on his mission?

4. Early releases told Jack that John about all of the following except what?

5. How were the prisoners treated up to the end of 1969?

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