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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to MacCrae a few weeks after Helen meets him?
(a) He loses his sight.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He is sent home.
(d) He is transferred to Cambodia.

2. What picture does Linh stare at while he is dreaming?
(a) One of Helen.
(b) One of his dead wife.
(c) One of his village in the early dawn before the war begins.
(d) One of his still-living child.

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

4. What does the person who Helen meets tell her?
(a) She already has a Pulitzer so she will leave.
(b) He has a seat reserved on a plane that leaves in an hour.
(c) She is leaving immediately.
(d) He has not won a Pulitzer.

5. When does Linh first spot Helen?
(a) During a conversation with Bao.
(b) In a battle helicopter.
(c) Among the faces at a press conference.
(d) In Darrow's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen learn about the Vietnamese?

2. What does Linh tell Helen he cannot do?

3. What does Helen say Linh had done?

4. In what kind of unit was Helen's brother?

5. What does Linh say when Darrow mentions Linh is using a different name?

(see the answer key)

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