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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom does Helen dance at Robert's going away party?
(a) Darrow.
(b) Annick.
(c) Linh.
(d) Tanner.

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

4. What does Helen say Robert would do if she agreed to his request?
(a) Drop dead.
(b) Be sorry.
(c) Be tired of her within a week.
(d) Be happy for a day only.

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

6. How many times has Darrow's helicopter gone down?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

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

8. What does Helen notice about Gary when they return to Saigon?
(a) He was gaunt.
(b) His hair had turned white.
(c) He was very pale.
(d) He was heavier.

9. What does Helen tell Darrow?
(a) She is leaving him for Robert.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She can't do this life anymore.
(d) She is accompanying the regiment that is moving north.

10. What does Linh say Darrow must be getting?
(a) Too meticulous.
(b) Jaded.
(c) Insane.
(d) Sloppy.

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

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

13. For what does Linh berate himself?
(a) For working for Americans.
(b) For deserting the military.
(c) For being foolish.
(d) For leaving his son with his brother's family.

14. Where does Helen go with two green berets?
(a) To the airport.
(b) To the jungles just south of Hanoi.
(c) To the morgue.
(d) To the crash site.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fights with Tanner about taking the picture?

2. What does Helen ask Robert?

3. What does Robert ask Helen?

4. What does Thao wear to the dinner she prepares for Linh?

5. What seems to be receding to Helen?

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