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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the guards do?
(a) They punish Rowe.
(b) They take the body away.
(c) They throw Ben's body in the river.
(d) They dig up the body.

2. The prisoners dub the camp ____________ because of a high fence that keeps them prisoner.
(a) No-K Corral.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Not OK Corral.
(d) Buchenwald.

3. The prisoners are promised what celebration?
(a) A Christmas celebration.
(b) A Thanksgiving celebration.
(c) An Easter celebration.
(d) A Chinese New Year celebration.

4. Rowe spends some time in what he calls the best assignment the Army offers, learning the language while spending a great deal of time doing what?
(a) Lying on the California beach and learning to parachute.
(b) Reading.
(c) Learning to surf.
(d) Seeing the sites of the city.

5. Forces from the camp are to go to Le Coeur to do what?
(a) Speak with the Vietcong.
(b) Drive out Vietcong forces.
(c) Sign a treaty with the Vietcong.
(d) Surrender to the Vietcong.

Short Answer Questions

1. The story returns to when?

2. Dan is put to work and finds that it's wonderful. Why?

3. Why Rocky is taken away?

4. Dave and John are moved out of the camp in _________ of 1965.

5. Rowe is a member of what military organization?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Staff Sergeant Ben Wilkes.

2. What happens when the men are promised a Christmas celebration?

3. What happened to Dave at this point?

4. What does Nam tell the men about their situation?

5. What problems surround this plan?

6. Describe the photograph of the men taken. Why might it be taken?

7. Describe Rowe's arrival at his training camp.

8. What happened to Ben?

9. Why is Rocky taken away from the others?

10. What are the prisoners encouraged to write? What does Rowe choose to do?

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