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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems to fade into the distance for Helen?
(a) The war.
(b) Her life in the United States.
(c) Her pain at her brother's death.
(d) Her life with her fiance.

2. Why is Linh not with Helen at the beginning of the book?
(a) He has been injured.
(b) They have had an argument.
(c) He is out of the city.
(d) He is visiting his mother in the northwest section.

3. What does Darrow say is the first thing to go when Helen talks to him?
(a) Pain.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Desire.
(d) Belief.

4. What does Linh feel for the first time since Mai's death?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Grief.
(c) The touch and kindness of another.
(d) Passion.

5. Why does a Captain jump on Helen when she steps forward to take a picture of a grandfather?
(a) He says women should not be in the field.
(b) He is angry she turned down his request for a date.
(c) He says she is going to get them killed.
(d) He says she is going to be killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Helen get into the field without Darrow?

2. How does Darrow say Helen should view Linh?

3. What does Darrow say about himself?

4. What does Darrow say about Helen to the USAID man?

5. What does Linh realize about Helen?

(see the answer key)

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