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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Dan and Rowe learn that who has been assassinated but they don't believe it?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) President Kennedy.
(c) Nguyen Minh Triet.
(d) Ho Chi Minh.

3. Dave and John are moved out of the camp in _________ of 1965.
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) March.
(d) June.

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

5. That night, Rowe has a dream about a battle and wakes to find what?
(a) A war movie being played.
(b) No one there.
(c) He is still in California.
(d) They're being barraged with shells.

6. He says that he fears for his life but grows more hopeful when?
(a) He is no longer being beaten.
(b) He is not shot immediately.
(c) He is given food.
(d) The Vietcong leave him alone.

7. Ben stops doing what almost completely?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Eating.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Singing.

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

9. The prisoners dub the camp ____________ because of a high fence that keeps them prisoner.
(a) No-K Corral.
(b) Not OK Corral.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Buchenwald.

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

11. The story returns to when?
(a) The moments following Rowe's capture.
(b) Rowe was rescued.
(c) Rowe was in the training camp in the U.S.
(d) Rowe decided to join the military.

12. There is a new American prisoner, a man named Dave Davila who has what?
(a) Influenza.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Shrapnel in his legs.
(d) West Nile.

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

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

15. 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 week.
(c) A month.
(d) A day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rowe finds the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Rusty Riggs, is not expecting whom to fill vacancies on the base?

2. Rowe has another painful and serious attack of what?

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

4. Major Hai commands the camp and Mr. Muoi serves as what?

5. They near Le Coeur at 5:15. Is this on schedule?

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