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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems to be receding to Helen?
(a) Her plan to win a Pulitzer.
(b) Her memories of her father's shame of her.
(c) The plan to return to the U. S.
(d) Her plan to stay emotionally aloof from the country.

2. Why does Linh berate Helen?
(a) He says she is acting like a child.
(b) She is so stoic.
(c) She is insisting on going where press are not allowed.
(d) For loving a dead man.

3. What did Linh do while separated from Darrow and Helen?
(a) Takes up painting.
(b) Visits his young son.
(c) Visits his family village and visits Mr. Bao.
(d) Shoots some film himself.

4. How does Linh decide he can pay tribute to Darrow?
(a) By sending Helen home.
(b) By taking over Darrow's work.
(c) By going to the States and talking to Darrow's wife in person.
(d) By marrying Helen.

5. What does Helen say Linh had done?
(a) Exposed some of her film intentionally.
(b) Contacted an officer of the Viet Cong.
(c) Stopped her from going on the convoy that was destroyed.
(d) Let information leak to the North Vietnamese press.

6. What does Linh say having Helen around has done?
(a) Given him a new perspective.
(b) Made it more difficult to be a good journalist.
(c) Changed everything.
(d) Made life more interesting.

7. What does Darrow want to do on the visit?
(a) Find Linh's brother.
(b) Take pictures of the children.
(c) Ask the Viet Cong what they want.
(d) Adopt a child.

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

9. What does Tanner want to photograph along a road?
(a) A dead baby along the road.
(b) An emaciated young man pulling a cart.
(c) A naked elderly woman.
(d) A decapitated elderly man.

10. Where is Robert sent?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) LA.

11. Where do Helen and Darrow stay?
(a) In an abandoned hotel.
(b) In a shack.
(c) In the mayor's abandoned home.
(d) In an old mess tent.

12. What does Linh realize about Helen?
(a) She is a fairy.
(b) She is not altogether present mentally.
(c) She will never love him.
(d) He is in love with her.

13. What does Darrow say he did not care about for a long time?
(a) His life.
(b) His work.
(c) The country of his birth.
(d) The Vietnamese.

14. What does Darrow tell Helen he has back in Saigon?
(a) A bag of gold coins.
(b) A daughter.
(c) A will.
(d) A son.

15. What happens the morning after the summer festivities end?
(a) Helen learns she is pregnant.
(b) Darrow is shot by accident.
(c) It is time to go back to Saigon.
(d) Linh is injured badly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Helen and Darrow visit?

2. Who does a soldier say were heroes?

3. With whom does Helen dance at Robert's going away party?

4. What does Helen notice about Gary when they return to Saigon?

5. What happens when Darrow and Anderson get on a flight together?

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