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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rowe and Dan insist that they write a single letter to whom?
(a) The Red Cross.
(b) The U.S. military.
(c) Their families.
(d) The President.

2. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) The lines he has in his hands.
(b) The way in which he tells the story.
(c) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(d) His fluent Vietnamese.

3. Rowe and the others are fed _____ though his hands remain tied.
(a) Bread.
(b) Soup.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Rice.

4. Mr. Ba later tells the men that the Red Cross is what?
(a) Useless.
(b) A tool of the imperialist aggressors.
(c) An important tool of the Americans.
(d) Trying to find them.

5. The schooling continues and Rowe learns what?
(a) Americans are searching for them.
(b) Americans are becoming more involved in the struggle.
(c) The Vietcong are stronger than the American forces.
(d) Americans are pulling out of Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. After how many days does Tim Barker, a U.S. Army Captain, die?

2. When Rowe is some distance from camp, he encounters whom?

3. What do Rowe's captors tell the villagers?

4. Dan and Rowe are taken to another camp where what are taken?

5. Rocky later has a lengthy conversation with the leader of the guards who offers up answers he believes Rocky wants to hear and, in exchange, gains what?

(see the answer key)

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