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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rowe is a member of what military organization?
(a) The mechanized cavalry.
(b) A regimental combat team.
(c) Reconnaissance.
(d) The Special Forces.

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

3. Rowe, Rocky and Dan are put into what upon their arrival?
(a) A large room.
(b) A cage.
(c) A train car.
(d) A truck bed.

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

5. It's almost ______ o'clock when the ambush group is spotted by a guard.
(a) Seven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

6. Major Hai commands the camp and Mr. Muoi serves as what?
(a) Interpreter.
(b) His assistant.
(c) The cook.
(d) The disciplinarian.

7. Rowe arrives in Fort Sill, ____________, in 1961.
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Oregon.

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

9. Do Rowe's pleas for food and medicine get noticed?
(a) Not at first.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

10. For days, the attacks continue during the daylight hours so that Dan and Rowe are moved out early each morning where?
(a) Into broad daylight.
(b) To another camp.
(c) Into a nearby river.
(d) Into the dense foliage in the nearby area.

11. Rowe has another painful and serious attack of what?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Fluid buildup.

12. When Rowe is taken inside, he discovers that _________ is there, that his leg is troubling him but that he is alive and conscious.
(a) Ben.
(b) Dan.
(c) Lowe.
(d) Rocky.

13. Rowe's group goes on to Tan Phu where they are to do what?
(a) Learn the language.
(b) Train the Vietnamese.
(c) Plan attacks against the Vietcong.
(d) Oversee construction projects and offer assistance to the Vietnamese forces there.

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

15. One day, Dan and Rowe are bathing in a canal when they hear whose voice?
(a) The President's.
(b) Rocky's.
(c) Nam's.
(d) Ben's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rowe find out later about the airstrip?

2. Why Rocky is taken away?

3. Forces from the camp are to go to Le Coeur to do what?

4. Dan eventually finds himself alone in another camp, for what reason?

5. The next morning Rowe and the others begin what?

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