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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What request do the guards ignore?
(a) The prisoners being allowed to write a letter to the Red Cross.
(b) The prisoners being allowed to contact Ben's wife.
(c) The prisoners being allowed to bury Ben.
(d) The prisoners being allowed to have a priest bury Ben.

2. Rocky later has a lengthy conversation with the leader of the guards who offers up answers he believes Rocky wants to hear and, in exchange, gains what?
(a) A translator.
(b) Information and the understanding that Rocky can understand a great deal of the language.
(c) Rocky's assistance with the other prisoners.
(d) Rocky's loyalty.

3. Rowe is chosen to study ___________.
(a) Korean.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Chinese.

4. On the way, they suddenly come under fire and Rowe is the first to realize what?
(a) The goal is to keep them pinned down until another group of VC can cut them off so that they have no escape.
(b) The Vietcong are not the ones shooting at them.
(c) They are the only Americans left alive.
(d) They are going to die.

5. The author of the story, James N. Rowe, is stationed at ____________ in Vietnam.
(a) Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh.
(b) Tan Phu.
(c) A Hoi.
(d) Tinh An Giang.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rowe and Dan Pitzer split off, leaving Rocky with whom?

2. They continue to seek a way out when they learn what has happened to reinforcements?

3. Rowe arrives in Fort Sill, ____________, in 1961.

4. John and Rowe have bouts of what which prompts some rudimentary medical care?

5. The schooling continues and Rowe learns what?

(see the answer key)

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