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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plan goes wrong immediately and the Vietcong do what?

2. Rowe is a member of what military organization?

3. Why Rocky is taken away?

4. Rocky later has a lengthy conversation with the leader of the guards who offers up answers he believes Rocky wants to hear and, in exchange, gains what?

5. The next morning Rowe and the others begin what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Dan and Rowe learn that Rocky is alive?

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

3. What has happened to Rowe, physically?

4. What is the first step of the operation? What goes wrong?

5. What happened the night that the Beau Geste compound was bombed?

6. How does Dan deal with this isolation?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several escape attempts are made by the men.

Part 1) Describe these attempts. Are they successful? Why or why not? What do these attempts say about the POWs?

Part 2) How are they treated in these ways? Are you surprised by any of these consequences? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do the men use psychological warfare in some of these attempts? How do they benefit from this?

Essay Topic 2

Rowe lives a solitary lief at one point in the story.

Part 1) Why does he live without his friends for much of the end of the story? Do you believe the Vietcong's reasons for this? Why or why not? What do you believe happened to the other men? Why?

Part 2) How is Rowe affected by this? How does he cope with this? Is he affected by this in the way the Vietcong had hoped? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this solitary confinement lead to his freedom? Would he have been successful if he had been with the other men? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Rowe is debriefed.

Part 1) Describe this debriefing. Why does this take place? What purpose does it serve?

Part 2) Why is this debriefing disturbing for Rowe? How does this make a comparison between the U.S. military and the Vietcong?

Part 3) Why is this debriefing important to the U.S. military? Do they care about Rowe? Why or why not? What matters to the U.S. military, based on Rowe's debriefing? Why?

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