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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. They cross rice paddies, learn from a resident that there have been enemy forces along the road recently but get no information regarding what?
(a) Who the enemy is.
(b) Where the enemy is located.
(c) The number of forces.
(d) How long ago the enemy was there.

2. The prisoners are promised what celebration?
(a) A Thanksgiving celebration.
(b) An Easter celebration.
(c) A Christmas celebration.
(d) A Chinese New Year celebration.

3. Rowe spends some time in what he calls the best assignment the Army offers, learning the language while spending a great deal of time doing what?
(a) Reading.
(b) Seeing the sites of the city.
(c) Learning to surf.
(d) Lying on the California beach and learning to parachute.

4. Why do they have a layover here?
(a) The plane is having engine problems.
(b) The flight crew members are suffering from hang overs.
(c) The flight crew is being changed.
(d) The men are ill.

5. Then Ben becomes listless and Rowe sees the signs of what?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Dystentery.
(d) A man who has given up hope.

6. In February they arrive at Rung U Minh or what?
(a) The Wild Jungle.
(b) The River of Snakes.
(c) The Hills of Vietnam.
(d) The Forest of Darkness.

7. In August, ______________, a medic with the Special Forces, arrives in the camp as a prisoner.
(a) Jim Jackson.
(b) Tim Barker.
(c) Dave Davila.
(d) Edward Johnson.

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

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

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

11. To whom does Lowe barely have time to say goodbye?
(a) Rowe.
(b) Ben.
(c) Rocky.
(d) Dan.

12. 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) Rocky's assistance with the other prisoners.
(b) Information and the understanding that Rocky can understand a great deal of the language.
(c) Rocky's loyalty.
(d) A translator.

13. The next morning, Rowe is cooking breakfast when he receives word that what has happened?
(a) Ben has been taken to a hospital.
(b) Ben has been moved.
(c) Ben has been killed.
(d) Ben has died.

14. 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 day.
(b) A week.
(c) A few hours.
(d) A month.

15. Rowe and Dan Pitzer split off, leaving Rocky with whom?
(a) Lieutenant Hoi.
(b) Lieutenant Thanh.
(c) Lieutenant Minh.
(d) Lieutenant Tihn.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of the story, James N. Rowe, is stationed at ____________ in Vietnam.

2. Mr. Ba, is nicknamed what by Rowe?

3. They face attacks of varying levels from their arrival but focus on providing what?

4. For days, the attacks continue during the daylight hours so that Dan and Rowe are moved out early each morning where?

5. The airfield is easily repaired but several members of the team are what?

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