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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. Why do the men buy raw brown sugar?

2. What do some of the guards do to the animals?

3. What does Rowe have an opportunity to do?

4. What threatens the camp?

5. Rowe is told that he and the other prisoners can do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Rowe arrives at the hospital?

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

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

4. What is revealed about the Vietnamese people with whom Rowe comes in contact?

5. What does Rowe do with the eagles? Why?

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

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

8. How does Rowe try to draw attention to himself? Why does he do it in this way?

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

10. How do the Vietnamese act bravely regarding Rowe?

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

The POW's meals consist of rice and fish or eel.

Part 1) How does this affect the men? Why do the Vietcong continue to feed them this same diet?

Part 2) How different might the men's experience have been in the camps if they had a diet with more variety? Use the text to support your response.

Part 3) How is food a theme in this story? How important does this basic need become to these men?

Essay Topic 3

Rowe is interviewed by a news reporter.

Part 1) Describe this interview. Why does Rowe respond the way he does? Do you believe many POWs responded the same way? Why or why not?

Par 2) How do the Vietcong continue to control Rowe's actions, as seen in this interview? What does this say about the power of psychological warfare?

Part 3) How did the media affect the Vietnam War? Why? How has this continued today? How has it changed the face of war? Is this good or bad? Why?

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