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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. Who initially sees Rowe?
(a) A nutritionist.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Army personnel.

2. How do many of the Vietnamese people feel about Rowe?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Curious.
(d) Angry.

3. How does Rowe convince his captor to believe him?
(a) He bribes him.
(b) He tells him all the horrible things that have happened to him.
(c) He blackmails him.
(d) He tells him their leader is blundering into a mistake that will cost them their lives.

4. What will be sold by the guards?
(a) The excess meat hunted by the men.
(b) The excess fish caught by the men.
(c) The excess food stolen by the men.
(d) The excess vegetables grown by the men.

5. What does he name them?
(a) Chang and Eng.
(b) Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
(c) Samson and Delilah.
(d) Herc and Ajax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Rowe punished?

2. What does Rowe think about this first bite of food?

3. Why does Rowe wave his mosquito netting?

4. With his first money, what does Rowe buy?

5. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Rowe is given nets and set lines for fishing and begins catching more than he can eat most days?

2. How does the book end?

3. Describe Rowe's encounter with the news reporter.

4. How does Rowe feel about being alone?

5. What gives Rowe the strength to resist the VC demands?

6. What happens to Jim?

7. Who are Herc and Ajax? Describe Rowe's relationship with them.

8. What do the men say to each other in their own slang?

9. What happens to the camp? How does Rowe feel about this? Why does he feel this way?

10. What punishment is given to Rowe for refusing to write a statement siding with the National Liberation Front?

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