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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What can Helen see in Darrow?
(a) That he values each moment more.
(b) That he is very depressed.
(c) That he does not care for life anymore.
(d) That he is taking chances.

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

4. With whom does Helen dance at Robert's going away party?
(a) Linh.
(b) Tanner.
(c) Annick.
(d) Darrow.

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

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

7. What did Linh do while separated from Darrow and Helen?
(a) Visits his young son.
(b) Takes up painting.
(c) Visits his family village and visits Mr. Bao.
(d) Shoots some film himself.

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

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

10. What is in Xa?
(a) Linh's extended family.
(b) The base for a new campaign.
(c) Darrow who is recuperating.
(d) Where the journalists go to relax.

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

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

13. What is Robert's new position?
(a) Senior Correspondent.
(b) Department Head.
(c) Editor-in-Chief.
(d) Bureau Chief.

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

15. What does Helen say Robert would do if she agreed to his request?
(a) Be happy for a day only.
(b) Be sorry.
(c) Be tired of her within a week.
(d) Drop dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Helen tell Darrow?

3. Who has agreed to take care of Darrow while he heals?

4. What does Helen say she might have to make an excuse to do?

5. How does Darrow say Helen should view Linh?

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