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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. When Rowe and his fellow squad members are deployed to Vietnam, they have a layover where?
(a) In California.
(b) In Fiji.
(c) In Hawaii.
(d) In China.

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

3. They face attacks of varying levels from their arrival but focus on providing what?
(a) Medical training and information about sanitation and other issues of health.
(b) Military training.
(c) Food.
(d) Entertainment for the troops.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The schooling continues and Rowe learns what?

2. Why was the barracks hit?

3. As they are moving to yet another location, Rowe catches an opportunity to watch Rocky and notes what?

4. Ben stops doing what almost completely?

5. They continue to seek a way out when they learn what has happened to reinforcements?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tim Barker? What happened to him?

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

3. Describe the photograph of the men taken. Why might it be taken?

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

5. Why are the men instructed to write letters? Why do the men refuse these instructions?

6. Describe the squad's deployment to Vietnam.

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

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

9. What happens at around six o'clock?

10. Describe Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes.

(see the answer keys)

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