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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Linh feel for the first time since Mai's death?
(a) The touch and kindness of another.
(b) Passion.
(c) Grief.
(d) Disappointment.

2. What does Helen say Robert would do if she agreed to his request?
(a) Drop dead.
(b) Be sorry.
(c) Be tired of her within a week.
(d) Be happy for a day only.

3. What does a soldier say about the Vietnamese and life?
(a) They do not value it like Americans.
(b) They have no life with the war in their country.
(c) Nothing is said about the Vietnamese and life.
(d) They believe life is sacred.

4. Why does Linh berate Helen?
(a) She is insisting on going where press are not allowed.
(b) For loving a dead man.
(c) He says she is acting like a child.
(d) She is so stoic.

5. What does Darrow tell Helen he hates about himself?
(a) That he has no feelings left.
(b) That he does not have the guts to leave Vietnam.
(c) That he sees himself in Tanner.
(d) That he sometimes wants to ask Helen to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helen's brother's name?

2. What does Linh say Darrow must be getting?

3. What does Helen say Linh had done?

4. What does Helen notice about Gary when they return to Saigon?

5. What does Helen tell Darrow?

(see the answer key)

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