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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. Is Rowe punished?

2. How long is the camp moved?

3. Rowe continues to know that he could be released if he does what?

4. Where is Rowe discovered?

5. Why are these people patrolling the area?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rowe's action during the move.

2. What happens when Rowe arrives at the hospital?

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

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

5. Who spots Rowe?

6. How do the Vietnamese act bravely regarding Rowe?

7. How is Rowe rescued?

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

9. How do the men benefit from fishing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Food is an important theme throughout the story.

Part 1) How is food a theme in this story? How important is food in this story? What does this say about one's basic needs?

Part 2) How is food used as a part of the Vietcong's psychological warfare? How does this affect the men?

Part 3) How different would the POW's situation have been if they had received adequate nutrition? Use the text to support your response.

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

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?

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