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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Tanner want to photograph along a road?
(a) A naked elderly woman.
(b) A dead baby along the road.
(c) An emaciated young man pulling a cart.
(d) A decapitated elderly man.

9. What does Darrow say he did not care about for a long time?
(a) His life.
(b) The Vietnamese.
(c) His work.
(d) The country of his birth.

10. What does Linh talk Helen into doing?
(a) Packing to go back to the States.
(b) Photographing Darrow's body before cremation.
(c) Marrying him.
(d) Taking a trip along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

11. What does Darrow want to do on the visit?
(a) Adopt a child.
(b) Take pictures of the children.
(c) Find Linh's brother.
(d) Ask the Viet Cong what they want.

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Thao say the dinner is for that she makes Linh?
(a) No reason.
(b) To thank him for his kindness to her.
(c) To ask him an important question.
(d) To show him that his heart is still in Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Helen become involved while she is staying with Darrow?

3. What does Helen ask Robert?

4. What does Helen say she needs of Linh?

5. How does Darrow say Helen should view Linh?

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