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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Linh realize about Helen?
(a) She will never love him.
(b) She is not altogether present mentally.
(c) He is in love with her.
(d) She is a fairy.

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

5. With what does Helen become involved while she is staying with Darrow?
(a) The school.
(b) A food program for babies.
(c) One of the USAID men.
(d) Village life.

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

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

8. What stories does Linh tell children while he was away?
(a) About peace.
(b) About Americans.
(c) About the mystery of life.
(d) About fairies.

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

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

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

12. 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 divorcing his wife.
(d) If he is serious about the Swiss nurse.

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

14. What does Linh tell Helen he cannot do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Swim.
(c) Cook.
(d) Whistle.

15. What do Darrow and Tanner decide?
(a) To go their separate ways once they reach Saigon.
(b) To have a photo shooting contest.
(c) To play a game of chess to settle their argument.
(d) To let bygones be bygones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confronts Helen and Linh as they are traveling?

2. Who does a soldier say were heroes?

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

4. Why is Thao jealous?

5. What does Darrow say about himself?

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