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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. Mr. Ba later tells the men that the Red Cross is what?

2. What does Rowe find out later about the airstrip?

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. When it becomes evident that Dave is going to die, what does Rowe do?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does showing a movie affect the men?

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

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

8. What has happened to Rowe, physically?

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

10. What does Rowe think about his job as a member of the Special Forces?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The men suffer from bombings of the camp.

Part 1) Describe these bombings. What must the men do during the bombings? Why? How do the men suffer from these bombings?

Part 2) Are you surprised by some of the men's reactions to the bombings? Why or why not?

Part 3) What do the bombings reveal about the Vietnam War and the Vietcong?

Essay Topic 2

The men are given a Christmas celebration.

Part 1) Describe this celebration. Why are they given this celebration? Do the Vietcong truly care about them and want to give them something to celebrate? Why or why not?

Part 2) What happens after they celebrate? Why does this happen? Should this celebration have taken place? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might this celebration, as well as the overall treatment of the POWs, be connected to the Geneva Convention?

Essay Topic 3

There is an operation planned between Tan Phu and Le Coeur.

Part 1) Describe this operation. What is foreshadowed at the beginning of this story regarding the success of this operation?

Part 2) Why might the steps leading up to this operation and the operation itself turn out the way they do?

Part 3) What might this say about the Vietnam War as a whole? What does this say about the U.S. military mindset at this time?

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