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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in Xa?
(a) Linh's extended family.
(b) Where the journalists go to relax.
(c) The base for a new campaign.
(d) Darrow who is recuperating.

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

3. What does Linh believe giving in to Thao's seduction will be?
(a) Weakness.
(b) A betrayal of his brother's memory.
(c) A desecrettion of Mai's memory.
(d) A betrayal of his feelings for Helen.

4. What does Helen say she needs of Linh?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A lover.

5. Who fights with Tanner about taking the picture?
(a) No one.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Helen.
(d) Linh.

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

7. What does Darrow say he will do with Helen?
(a) Leave Vietnam.
(b) Write a book.
(c) Go north towards Hanoi.
(d) Create a photo history of the war.

8. What offer does Linh refuse from Robert?
(a) To fly to the States for Darrow's funeral.
(b) A job and American citizenship.
(c) To be a correspondent in Thailand.
(d) To be a correspondent in Burma.

9. What does Thao say the dinner is for that she makes Linh?
(a) To ask him an important question.
(b) No reason.
(c) To thank him for his kindness to her.
(d) To show him that his heart is still in Vietnam.

10. What does Helen resent?
(a) Darrow wanting her to leave.
(b) The two USAID men's sexism.
(c) Darrow assuming she will stay with him.
(d) Linh's patronizing.

11. Who has agreed to take care of Darrow while he heals?
(a) Helen.
(b) Linh and Mai Long.
(c) Two men who work for USAID.
(d) No one.

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

13. For what does Thao blame Helen?
(a) The children in the camp not getting enough money.
(b) That Linh is gone for long stretches of time.
(c) The men not paying attention to the Vietnamese women who are widows.
(d) Linh's being lost to Thao.

14. What does Helen notice about Gary when they return to Saigon?
(a) His hair had turned white.
(b) He was heavier.
(c) He was gaunt.
(d) He was very pale.

15. What seems to be receding to Helen?
(a) Her plan to stay emotionally aloof from the country.
(b) Her plan to win a Pulitzer.
(c) The plan to return to the U. S.
(d) Her memories of her father's shame of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Helen go with two green berets?

2. How does Linh decide he can pay tribute to Darrow?

3. What does Linh say having Helen around has done?

4. What does Helen say she might have to make an excuse to do?

5. Where is Robert sent?

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