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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 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.

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

3. The next morning Rowe and the others begin what?
(a) Studying the Vietcong strategies.
(b) Touring the city.
(c) A rigorous regimen of training.
(d) Studying Chinese.

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

5. At one point Rowe is questioned but _______________ to communicate effectively.
(a) Is too afraid.
(b) Knows too little Vietnamese.
(c) Is too tired.
(d) Is too confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the attacks on the camp affect the men?

2. What happened to Dave at this point?

3. What are the prisoners encouraged to write? What does Rowe choose to do?

4. What happens at around six o'clock?

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

6. How does Dan deal with this isolation?

7. Describe Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes.

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

9. Describe the men's experiences at Tan Phu.

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

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