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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rowe's captors tell the villagers?
(a) Rowe is now a member of the National Liberation Front.
(b) Rowe will be returned to the Americans.
(c) Rowe had deserved to die but that he was being treated leniently by the NLF.
(d) Rowe will be executed shortly.

2. 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) His fluent Vietnamese.
(b) The way in which he tells the story.
(c) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(d) The lines he has in his hands.

3. Rowe tells the guards this news when?
(a) Only after they have cleaned Ben up.
(b) Only after they have buried Ben.
(c) Never.
(d) Right away.

4. In a village near Tan Phu, why is Rowe recognized?
(a) He had been there prior to his capture to buy food.
(b) He had been there to catch the Vietcong.
(c) He had been there to sell his fish.
(d) He had been there prior to his capture to offer help.

5. Do Rowe's pleas for food and medicine get noticed?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Not at first.

Short Answer Questions

1. He says that he fears for his life but grows more hopeful when?

2. Someone braves punishment by doing what?

3. The prisoners are promised what celebration?

4. They continue to hear radio broadcasts, including what in the United States?

5. On September 14, what happens to Rowe?

(see the answer key)

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