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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darrow want to encourage Americans to do?
(a) Refuse to join the military.
(b) Pressure the government to stop the war.
(c) Send more money to rehabilitate wounded South Vietnamese soldiers.
(d) Send money to the Red Cross for the children.

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

3. Where does Helen go with two green berets?
(a) To the crash site.
(b) To the morgue.
(c) To the airport.
(d) To the jungles just south of Hanoi.

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

5. What gesture does Helen make as they are confronted?
(a) A swipe across her neck.
(b) The international peace sign.
(c) The Viet Cong gesture of defiance.
(d) One of covering her eyes.

6. What does Darrow say about himself?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He does not have a death wish.
(c) He hates the United States for starting this war.
(d) He is not married.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What happens the morning after the summer festivities end?
(a) Linh is injured badly.
(b) Darrow is shot by accident.
(c) Helen learns she is pregnant.
(d) It is time to go back to Saigon.

13. Who confronts Helen and Linh as they are traveling?
(a) A boy soldier.
(b) A group of American deserters.
(c) A young woman with a baby.
(d) A squad of Viet Cong hit men.

14. What does Helen say she might have to make an excuse to do?
(a) Leave Darrow because she is too emotionally involved.
(b) Go back to Saigon.
(c) Go back to the States.
(d) Hire on with another magazine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Linh do while separated from Darrow and Helen?

2. For what does Linh berate himself?

3. For what does Thao blame Helen?

4. Why does Linh berate Helen?

5. What does Thao wear to the dinner she prepares for Linh?

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