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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What picture does Linh stare at while he is dreaming?
(a) One of his dead wife.
(b) One of his village in the early dawn before the war begins.
(c) One of his still-living child.
(d) One of Helen.

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

3. Who has Robert been dating?
(a) Annick.
(b) No one.
(c) A Vietnamese woman.
(d) A Swiss nurse.

4. How does Linh decide he can pay tribute to Darrow?
(a) By sending Helen home.
(b) By going to the States and talking to Darrow's wife in person.
(c) By marrying Helen.
(d) By taking over Darrow's work.

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

6. Where do Helen and Darrow stay?
(a) In a shack.
(b) In an abandoned hotel.
(c) In an old mess tent.
(d) In the mayor's abandoned home.

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

8. Who gets into a fight at Robert's party?
(a) Robert and Tanner.
(b) Darrow and Tanner.
(c) Robert and Linh.
(d) Darrow and Robert.

9. What does Robert ask Helen?
(a) To marry him.
(b) To go back to the States with him.
(c) To stay away from Linh.
(d) To stay away from Darrow.

10. What does Darrow say is the first thing to go when Helen talks to him?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Pain.
(c) Belief.
(d) Desire.

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

12. Why is Thao jealous?
(a) She cannot get Linh's attention.
(b) She wants to be a photographer like Helen.
(c) She is jealous that Darrow is paying attention to Helen.
(d) She wants to go to the States like Mai Linh.

13. What does Thao wear to the dinner she prepares for Linh?
(a) One of Helen's dresses.
(b) Her village clothing.
(c) A new outfit.
(d) An American-style outfit.

14. What happens to Samuels?
(a) He is reassigned to Laos.
(b) He is shot and killed.
(c) He is sent home to the States.
(d) He is wounded.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to fade into the distance for Helen?

2. How many times has Darrow's helicopter gone down?

3. What happens the morning after the summer festivities end?

4. What happens when Darrow and Anderson get on a flight together?

5. What gesture does Helen make as they are confronted?

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