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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 Helen ask Robert?
(a) If he is divorcing his wife.
(b) If he is serious about the Swiss nurse.
(c) How he can leave Vietnam.
(d) If he is taking the whole bureau with him.

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

3. Why is Linh not with Helen at the beginning of the book?
(a) He is out of the city.
(b) He has been injured.
(c) They have had an argument.
(d) He is visiting his mother in the northwest section.

4. What does Helen learn about the Vietnamese?
(a) They are like Americans in more ways than not.
(b) They are indomitable.
(c) They are fragile.
(d) They must be left to fend for themselves.

5. What does Gary think about working with Darrow?
(a) Darrow won't do his own work.
(b) Gary would rather work with him than anyone else.
(c) He is a difficult man.
(d) He has no thoughts on working with Darrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What offer does Linh refuse from Robert?

2. Why is Chuong allowed to stay in Helen's apartment building?

3. What does Linh feel for the first time since Mai's death?

4. What does Linh tell Helen he cannot do?

5. What does Darrow say he did not care about for a long time?

(see the answer key)

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