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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. He sees _____ fall after being hit by several rounds.
(a) Rocky.
(b) Ben.
(c) Rowe.
(d) Dan.

2. What happens to Lowe?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He is chased away.
(c) He's bound at the wrist and elbow and is taken away.
(d) He is tortured.

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

4. Why was the barracks hit?
(a) Because the Vietcong wanted to kill the soldiers.
(b) Because of its proximity to that target.
(c) Because it looks like an airplane hangar.
(d) Because the Vietcong have bad aim.

5. Rowe notes that on nights they show a movie in camp there is almost no what?
(a) Noise.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Complaining.
(d) Stop in the fighting.

Short Answer Questions

1. He effectively stalls by pretending to what?

2. What request do the guards ignore?

3. How are the next nights a nightmare of pain?

4. Who tells Rowe that the other three are being released but that Rowe will "rest here" for the foreseeable future?

5. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?

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