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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do Helen's thoughts eventually return?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father's final words as she was leaving the States.
(c) What has happened to some of the soldiers she met in the field.
(d) Leaving Vietnam.

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

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

4. Why was Darrow angry with Tanner?
(a) Darrow believes Tanner exploited the Vietnamese.
(b) Darrow believes Tanner is accepting bribes from the Viet Cong.
(c) Darrow believes Tanner is rude to Linh.
(d) Darrow believes Tanner is rude to Helen.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do some people wonder about Darrow?
(a) If he is deliberately cruel.
(b) If he deliberately puts himself in danger.
(c) If he will ever leave Vietnam.
(d) If his luck is going to run out.

11. What does Helen say Linh had done?
(a) Contacted an officer of the Viet Cong.
(b) Exposed some of her film intentionally.
(c) Let information leak to the North Vietnamese press.
(d) Stopped her from going on the convoy that was destroyed.

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

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

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

15. What does Darrow tell Helen he hates about himself?
(a) That he sees himself in Tanner.
(b) That he has no feelings left.
(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. Who has agreed to take care of Darrow while he heals?

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

3. Who gets into a fight at Robert's party?

4. Where do Helen and Darrow stay?

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

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