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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Brien help Alpha company do the day after the nighttime attack?
(a) Surprise the Viet Cong
(b) Search for mines
(c) Hunt for those that attacked them
(d) Gather the bodies of the dead

2. Which of the following does O'Brien begin reading?
(a) Socrates
(b) Plato
(c) Chaucer
(d) Hemingway

3. Which of the following is a synonym for "Charlie"?
(a) Hump
(b) O'Brien
(c) Barney
(d) Viet Cong

4. In which of the following wars did O'Brien's parents serve?
(a) Korea
(b) Vietnam
(c) WWII
(d) WWI

5. On which peninsula does chapter eleven occur?
(a) Malay
(b) Indochinese
(c) Batangan
(d) My Lai

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does O'Brien request a meeting?

2. What does O'Brien hide behind?

3. Where does O'Brien's plane land in Vietnam?

4. Where do the members of Alpha Company go when faced with an incoming explosive ordinance?

5. Which of the following is the best definition of insanity as used by O'Brien to describe some of his fellow soldiers in chapter four?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the backdrop for O'Brien's upbringing.

2. What do the soldiers often do on the long routine marches that sometimes alerts the enemy to their location?

3. What overwhelms O'Brien's opposition to the war?

4. What do the soldiers do that provokes a few Viet Cong hiding in the jungle to open fire before disappearing into the jungle?

5. How does O'Brien see himself during basic training?

6. Describe O'Brien's childhood and adolescence.

7. Why does the Chaplain disappoint O'Brien?

8. What provides O'Brien with his only intellectual connection?

9. What does O'Brien do on his long nocturnal walks?

10. Describe at least three activities O'Brien did during his last summer at home before the war.

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