Quiz on Bruce Franklin, M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America

Please answer the questions briefly, in one or two sentences. Indicate which pages of the book you found your answers on.

This is a short-answer quiz, designed to reward those who have read the book recently and somewhat carefully. This is important, because it makes class discussion possible.

Please DO NOT EMAIL but print out this test, fill it out (pen will do), and bring it to class on the date assigned.

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1. Contrast the way the US Government has treated Vietnam with respect to the POW/MIA issue, with the way it has treated the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. Give page reference.

2. What was the conclusion of the House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, issued in December 1976? Give page reference.

3. Why does Franklin refer to the US Government's "chutzpah" in the case of Lieutenant Commander John Graf? Give page reference.

4. According to US Government figures, as analyzed by Franklin, how many unacounted-for POWs were there after the War? Give page reference.

5. What is the REAL purpose of former Rep. John LeBoutellier's "Skyhook II" organization's fund-raising campaign, according to Franklin's study? Give page reference.

6. How did the US violate the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War? Give page reference.

7. What was the name of the head of a state affiliate of the National League of Families who "resigned in disgust" declaring "We've been used to drum up war sentiment"? Give page reference.

8. What was the first Vietnam War film to "take images of the war that had become deeply embedded in America's consciousness and transform them into their opposite?" Give page reference.

9. According to extensive intelligence debriefing, how many former American prisoners of war were aware of any living American captive who had not been repatriated by 1974? Give page reference.

10. Name two scholarly books that document US government involvement in drug-smuggling from Southeast Asia to the streets of the US during the Vietnam War? Give page reference.

11. BONUS QUESTION: What is the author, title, place and date of publication of the book which was, before Franklin's, "by far the most extensive study of the creation of the MIA issue"? Give page reference. DOUBLE POINTS for this one!!


REMEMBER: the educational purpose of this test is to ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE BOOK CAREFULLY AND CRITICALLY.