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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most frightening mission for the soldiers?

2. Which of the following terms does Blyton call Erik when he voices his opposition to the war?

3. How many men were in O'Brien's basic training unit?

4. What seems to happen to the jungle as the soldiers stare at it into the darkness?

5. When is O'Brien due to report for basic training?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't O'Brien sign up for two years?

2. How does O'Brien spend his last summer before starting basic training?

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

4. What is O'Brien's moral dilemma?

5. What causes fear and paranoia in the soldiers?

6. How do the soldiers react to these self-induced injuries caused by soldiers tossing about their own grenades?

7. Why do the Vietnamese people go everywhere the men of Alpha Company go?

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

9. What is available at the combat center for entertainment?

10. What philosophical conversation does O'Brien attempt to hold with the captain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on how the Vietnamese people must have felt about Americans during the war, especially those that were on the same side as the Americans. What lead the Vietnamese people to feel this way? Do you believe their feelings were justified? How would you feel in the same situation?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay making a personal judgment on the Vietnam War based on O'Brien's experience. Do you believe O'Brien feels the war was justified? Do you believe that O'Brien feels his own actions were justified? Do you believe O'Brien feels the actions of the others he knew during his time in the war were justified?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay expressing your own personal feelings about O'Brien's experience in Vietnam in relation to his own feelings. How has your understanding of the Vietnam war changed? In what ways can you relate to how O'Brien felt during his time in the war?

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