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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The schooling continues and Rowe learns what?
(a) Americans are becoming more involved in the struggle.
(b) Americans are searching for them.
(c) Americans are pulling out of Vietnam.
(d) The Vietcong are stronger than the American forces.

2. The plan goes wrong immediately and the Vietcong do what?
(a) Run in the opposite direction from the ambush groups.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Shoot the Americans.
(d) Run in the same direction as the ambush groups.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Rowe likely have been shot on sight?

2. When Rowe is taken inside, he discovers that _________ is there, that his leg is troubling him but that he is alive and conscious.

3. The story returns to when?

4. One day, the camp is shelled and Rowe finds himself running for his life. He notes that it's ___________ to be so near a rescue.

5. What request do the guards ignore?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the men are promised a Christmas celebration?

2. Why is Rocky taken away from the others?

3. How does Dan find himself alone in the camp? Why is he alone?

4. What does Rowe think about his job as a member of the Special Forces?

5. When the men come under fire, what does Rowe realize?

6. What do the men do, first thing, the day after their arrival at the camp?

7. Describe Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes.

8. What happens at around six o'clock?

9. What has happened to Rowe, physically?

10. What takes place immediately following Rowe's capture?

(see the answer keys)

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