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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen find as she is returning to her apartment?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) Another camera.
(c) A lost girl.
(d) A pair of shoes.

2. What do Helen and Curt talk about on the way out of the field?
(a) Surfing.
(b) War.
(c) Motorcycles.
(d) Photography.

3. What does Helen give Chuong?
(a) Money.
(b) A pass to get on a plane.
(c) Food.
(d) Her film.

4. What type of stories did Helen do on Cambodia?
(a) Stories on their type of farmning.
(b) Humanitarian.
(c) She did not do any stories on Cambodia.
(d) Stories about the animals there.

5. What does Darrow give Helen the next morning?
(a) A new type of film.
(b) A camera battery.
(c) Her brother's last known location.
(d) The key to his room.

6. What is Curt determined to do?
(a) Return to combat.
(b) Buy great camera equipment when he returns to the states.
(c) Tour the Far East on his motorcycle.
(d) Ride a hundred foot wave.

7. Who teaches Helen about darkroom operation?
(a) Arnie.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Jack.
(d) Robert.

8. What does Darrow make clear to Helen when she next sees him?
(a) That she should go home.
(b) That he does not want children.
(c) That there is no chance for a relationship.
(d) That he will not take her in the field.

9. Why is Darrow arguing with a Lieutenant in Chapter 4?
(a) He will not let Helen on the helicopter.
(b) He wants a date with Helen.
(c) He wants Darrow to give him a bribe.
(d) He says Darrow's camera equipment is too heavy.

10. Who was the first American Linh ever met?
(a) Helen.
(b) Matt Carter.
(c) Sam Darrow.
(d) Robert Canson.

11. What is Helen's first assignment from Gary?
(a) To cover the Buddhist strikes.
(b) To take pictures of peaceful places in Saigon.
(c) To write a report on Vietnamese families and the war.
(d) To interview the American Ambassador.

12. How do Darrow, Gary and Linh feel about Helen when they meet her?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Excited to see a female journalist.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Angry.

13. Why did Michael go to Vietnam?
(a) To stop communism.
(b) He was drafted.
(c) To follow in his father's footsteps.
(d) To help stop the war from the inside.

14. What does Helen hear when she wakes that morning?
(a) Firecrackers.
(b) Mortars.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Nothing unusual.

15. 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 fall in love with the women there.
(c) They turn into monsters.
(d) They lose all desire to leave the meadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of unit is Frank MacCrae serving?

2. What does Bao require Linh to do?

3. What do Helen and Darrow do the night they meet after dinner?

4. What does Linh say when Darrow mentions Linh is using a different name?

5. How did Helen get into the field without Darrow?

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