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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. What will be used in this selling process?
(a) The men's valuables.
(b) The money the men had on them when they were captured.
(c) The men's bartering tactics.
(d) The money given to the prisoners to buy extra items they want.

2. What happens when one attacks a guard who comes too close?
(a) It is tortured.
(b) It is eaten.
(c) Its wing is clipped.
(d) It is killed.

3. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) His fluent Vietnamese.
(b) The way in which he tells the story.
(c) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(d) The lines he has in his hands.

4. How does Rowe find the will to resist?
(a) In prayer.
(b) In the actions of the Vietnamese people he encounters during the tour of the region.
(c) In the actions of the Vietcong.
(d) In the actions of his fellow POWs.

5. How quickly is Rowe recognized?
(a) Very quickly.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) Not very quickly.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. The prisoners - Jim, Dan, John and Rowe - are moved again on March 4, 1967, this time to where?

2. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?

3. Using their own slang, what does Rowe ask the men to do?

4. Who initially sees Rowe?

5. What does Rowe have an opportunity to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rowe do for the men before they leave?

2. Why does Rowe decide to try another escape?

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

4. Describe Rowe's action during the move.

5. What happens when Rowe arrives at the hospital?

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

7. What does Rowe do on September 14? What does he expect from this?

8. Describe Rowe's escape attempt.

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

10. What does Rowe eat? How does this affect him?

(see the answer keys)

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