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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Helen become involved while she is staying with Darrow?
(a) Village life.
(b) One of the USAID men.
(c) A food program for babies.
(d) The school.

2. What does Bao not believe about Linh and Helen?
(a) That Helen loves Linh.
(b) That Linh loves Helen.
(c) That Linh is getting any useful information out of Helen.
(d) That Linh was wise to marry Helen.

3. What happens when the men in the book in question #1 eat the Lotus Flower?
(a) They fall asleep and never wake up.
(b) They lose all desire to leave the meadows.
(c) They turn into monsters.
(d) They fall in love with the women there.

4. What does Helen tell Darrow?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She can't do this life anymore.
(c) She is accompanying the regiment that is moving north.
(d) She is leaving him for Robert.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What exists between Helen and Tanner?

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

4. What does a soldier say about the Vietnamese and life?

5. What is Helen's hope concerning herself and Linh?

(see the answer key)

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