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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Linh feel when he sees a picture of Helen and Darrow on Darrow's table?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Surprised and jealous.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

2. What does Bao require Linh to do?
(a) Steer Darrow towards pro communists people.
(b) Bao has no interest in Linh.
(c) Give him half of his pay.
(d) Work for the North.

3. At what Air Force Base are Helen and Darrow at the opening of Chapter 4?
(a) Saigon.
(b) Dong Kwi.
(c) Bien Hoa.
(d) Hanoi Phi.

4. Where was Linh sent when he answered a Help Wanted ad?
(a) A U.S. army base in Saigon.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) The Philippines.
(d) Hanoi.

5. How long has Helen been in Vietnam?
(a) Two years.
(b) Almost ten years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Five years.

6. What does Helen attempt to do the evening she returns from the field?
(a) Avoid everyone.
(b) Find her brother.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Find a new battery for her camera.

7. What does a soldier say about the Vietnamese and life?
(a) Nothing is said about the Vietnamese and life.
(b) They do not value it like Americans.
(c) They have no life with the war in their country.
(d) They believe life is sacred.

8. How did Helen get into the field without Darrow?
(a) She followed soldiers in a taxi.
(b) She forged press credentials.
(c) Taking army journalist junkets.
(d) She found a Lieutenant who was sympathetic.

9. With what does Helen ask Darrow for help?
(a) Loading her film.
(b) Adjusting her aperture.
(c) Tying her combat boots.
(d) Putting on the body harness.

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

11. How long has Annick lived in Vietnam?
(a) All her life.
(b) 20 years.
(c) Five years.
(d) 15 years.

12. What do Helen and Darrow do the night they meet after dinner?
(a) Spend a long time talking.
(b) Go out and shoot some pictures.
(c) Go to bed together.
(d) Go dancing.

13. What happens when the men in the book in question #1 eat the Lotus Flower?
(a) They lose all desire to leave the meadows.
(b) They fall in love with the women there.
(c) They turn into monsters.
(d) They fall asleep and never wake up.

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

15. Why is Helen rushing to meet Robert?
(a) He knows something about her brother.
(b) He is going to take her to a battle.
(c) He has film for her.
(d) She is late for a date with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen arrange for Linh?

2. What does Darrow call Helen when he meets her?

3. What does Gary think about working with Darrow?

4. How does Darrow get the Lieutenant to do what Darrow wants?

5. How do Darrow, Gary and Linh feel about Helen when they meet her?

(see the answer keys)

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