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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?
(a) Adequate food was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners relatively healthy.
(b) The men will not give in to the Vietcong's requests.
(c) The men are all willing to die for their country.
(d) Medicine was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners healthy.

2. Why does Rowe go on constant forced walks?
(a) Reportedly for his safety from air raids.
(b) Reportedly to weaken him.
(c) Reportedly to try to kill him.
(d) Reportedly to give him exercise.

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

4. The trip continues _________ late and arrives in Tan Son Nhut where Rowe watches departing troops head back to the United States in the plane that brought him there.
(a) A few hours.
(b) A month.
(c) A day.
(d) A week.

5. Besides moving, what else do the Vietcong do to stay out of harm's way?
(a) They climb trees.
(b) They continue to fight.
(c) They hide.
(d) They play dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. He effectively stalls by pretending to what?

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

3. What happens to Lowe?

4. Le Coeur is too near the camp to allow what?

5. They cross rice paddies, learn from a resident that there have been enemy forces along the road recently but get no information regarding what?

(see the answer key)

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