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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who does a soldier say were heroes?
(a) No one.
(b) Darrow and Linh.
(c) Anderson and the pilot.
(d) Darrow and Anderson.

3. What does one of the USAID men offer Helen?
(a) A better situation.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A new camera.
(d) A ticket back to the United States.

4. How long will it take Darrow's arm to heal?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 4 months.

5. What does Robert say concerns him about Darrow?
(a) Darrow is shut down emotionally.
(b) Darrow takes unnecessary risks.
(c) Darrow is destructive to his friends.
(d) Darrow is too involved with the country.

6. What does Linh say having Helen around has done?
(a) Made it more difficult to be a good journalist.
(b) Given him a new perspective.
(c) Made life more interesting.
(d) Changed everything.

7. Where do Helen and Darrow visit?
(a) A French orphanage.
(b) A Red Cross camp for children.
(c) A Viet Cong strategy meeting.
(d) A Viet Cong training camp.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Darrow say about Helen to the USAID man?
(a) She has simple tastes.
(b) She is his.
(c) She prefers soldiers over aid workers.
(d) She is crazy.

13. How does Darrow say Helen should view Linh?
(a) As the enemy.
(b) As a spy.
(c) As a man from a very patriarchal culture.
(d) As her guardian angel.

14. Where is Robert sent?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) LA.
(d) New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darrow say is the first thing to go when Helen talks to him?

2. Who is Thao?

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

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

5. What does Linh talk Helen into doing?

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