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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 10 What is available to the men at Liberty Bridge?
(a) Dangerous enemy patrols and a shortage of food
(b) No fresh water, little food, and trenches for sleeping
(c) Trenches to sleep in and danger of ambushes
(d) Hot food, minimal danger, daily baths, tents, cots, and toilets

2. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?
(a) He is humorless, dry voiced, and old for thirty one.
(b) He is funny and exuberant.
(c) He is aggressive and mean spirited.
(d) He is friendly, mild, and child-like.

3. What changes Hodges' mind about being excited to be in the war?
(a) He is slightly injured as he lies on his cot.
(b) The severed hand of a soldier lands near him when a bomb goes off fifty feet from his cot.
(c) He is not assigned to the unit he wanted.
(d) He doesn't like being in the jungle.

4. What is Hodges thinking as he watches his men dying in Arizona Valley?
(a) He will design a plan to go AWOL.
(b) He has to figure out a way home.
(c) He will be in Arizona Valley the next day.
(d) He will ask to be reassigned.

5. What is the one thing that Austin tells Hodges he won't tolerate?
(a) He won't tolerate cowardice.
(b) He won't tolerate a Marine out of uniform and unshaved.
(c) He won't tolerate drug use.
(d) He won't tolerate vulgar language.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 What is the reason that Bobby Hodges enlists in the armed forces?

2. Why were Bobby and his father named after Robert E. Lee?

3. What does Major Otto ask Hodges when they meet in the commander's tent?

4. Chapter 8 How does Senator's friend, John Grimsley, get out of going to Vietnam?

5. Chapter 4 What is the injury that Ogre sustains during enemy fire?

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