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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the guards do?
(a) They dig up the body.
(b) They punish Rowe.
(c) They take the body away.
(d) They throw Ben's body in the river.

3. Rowe is continually pressed to do what?
(a) Tell the Vietcong of the American Army's location.
(b) Write a statement siding with the National Liberation Front.
(c) Translate for them.
(d) Commit suicide.

4. What do these animals do for Rowe?
(a) They attack the Vietcong.
(b) They provide Rowe with companionship and some small meals.
(c) They help him escape.
(d) They carry messages to the U.S. military.

5. Dan eventually finds himself alone in another camp, for what reason?
(a) For encouraging the other men to resist the temptation to give into the Vietcong.
(b) For having refused to agree to the rhetoric being taught to the prisoners.
(c) For talking back to the Vietcong.
(d) For having tried to escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. The schooling continues and Rowe learns what?

2. When Rowe and his fellow squad members are deployed to Vietnam, they have a layover where?

3. He effectively stalls by pretending to what?

4. 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?

5. Rowe's group goes on to Tan Phu where they are to do what?

(see the answer key)

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