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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. They cross rice paddies, learn from a resident that there have been enemy forces along the road recently but get no information regarding what?

2. What do the guards do?

3. To whom does Lowe barely have time to say goodbye?

4. Lowe loses sight of whom?

5. Why do they have a layover here?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes.

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

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

4. How are some of the men captured or killed at this point?

5. What problems surround this plan?

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

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

8. What takes place in January and February of 1965?

9. How does Dan deal with this isolation?

10. Describe Rowe's arrival at his training camp.

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 returns home to his parents.

Part 1) Describe this return. How are Rowe's parents' personalities revealed through this homecoming?

Part 2) How might Rowe's life have changed because of his POW experience? Use the text to support your response.

Part 3) How does reading the accounts of the POW experience affect your own life? How might you be forever changed from reading this story?

Essay Topic 3

Positive and negative reinforcement is used on the men.

Part 1) What is positive reinforcement? What is negative reinforcement? Give an example of each from the story and why the Vietcong use these types of reinforcements.

Part 2) Can this reinforcement be considered psychological warfare? Why or why not? How does this reinforcement affect the men?

Part 3) How does this reinforcement of the POWs affect some of the Vietcong and local Vietnamese? What does this say about the people of this area and regime?

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