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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 11 What do Speedy, Smitty, Senator, and Burgie witness as they lie beyond the barbed wire for their LP watch?
(a) A boy is killed by a grenade.
(b) The enemy opens fire on the northern compound.
(c) The enemy runs into the jungle.
(d) A woman pulled from her hooch and killed by the enemy.

2. Which member of Snake's platoon loses his leg?
(a) Flaky
(b) Baby Cakes
(c) Kerlovic
(d) Corky

3. Chapter 13 What is a sign that the enemy is near?
(a) The fields are silent.
(b) The smell of human sweat is in the air.
(c) The birds begin to screech.
(d) The water bulls disappear from the fields

4. What does Speedy offer to give Senator when he says that he wants to resign from the Marines?
(a) Some extra money for travelling home
(b) A medal to bring home to his wife
(c) A grenade to kill himself with
(d) A letter of recommendation

5. What does Goodrich plan to do when he gets into the Marines?
(a) Be an infantryman
(b) Work on jets
(c) Play in the Marine Band
(d) Be a medic

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Phony join the Marines?

2. Chapter 7 Who does a great job digging and engineering two holes that Hodges notices?

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

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

5. What is Hodges thinking as he watches his men dying in Arizona Valley?

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