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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helped the family when John's wife was struggling?

2. What information did John give his interrogators?

3. How did Jack respond to the opinions of those under his command?

4. How did John feel during the months after the Vietnamese offered his release?

5. Where did John attend flight school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John feel after the wash rag incident, and what did he do about it?

2. What happened when the Vietnamese asked John if he wanted to go home early?

3. What was life in his imprisonment like after John refused to go home early?

4. What happened when John realized he didn't have a wash rag after his punishment?

5. How did Jack show what he felt for his son while his son was a prisoner of war?

6. What happened when the three men were released in August of 1969?

7. What happened on Christmas Eve in 1968?

8. What injuries did John receive from the inferno on the USS Forestall? How were his injuries compared to the others?

9. What did John and his friends do for entertainment in Meridian, Mississippi? How did people react to what they had done?

10. What did early releases tells Jack about his son, John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the communication systems between prisoners and their families. How did they get real messages to each other? Was John any good at it? How did he feel about the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the conditions John lived in at The Plantation. What was his daily schedule like? What was isolation like? How did he keep sane?

Essay Topic 3

How did John's temper and anger issues continue to get him in trouble even after the Church Riot? How did his fellow prisoners try to help him? How did he feel about the trouble he caused them?

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