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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 Gillis use to stop an armored personnel carrier during the hospital attack?
(a) BAR.
(b) Machine gun.
(c) Torpedo.
(d) Antitank rounds.

2. Where does Haywood spend his last six months in the army?
(a) Fort Bliss, Texas.
(b) Fort Benning, Georgia.
(c) Anniston Army Depot, Alabama.
(d) Fort Carson, Colorado.

3. What do the VC fire directly at the bunker where Luther and Gillis are during the hospital attack?
(a) FIM-92 Stinger.
(b) R5.
(c) LRAC F1.
(d) B-40 rocket.

4. Where did Light Bulb go to college for a semester before enlisting?
(a) University of Illinois.
(b) Southern Illinois University.
(c) Bowling Green State University.
(d) Indiana State University.

5. How many Bronze Stars does Richard receive in Vietnam?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Wallace Terry asked to fly to Saigon and cover a story on the role of the black soldier in the Vietnam War?

2. About how many villages does Haywood's platoon burn down?

3. How many times does Luther have to watch an interrogation to make sure the prisoners are treated properly?

4. During what time of day is Luther's hospital in attacked?

5. Out of fifty villages burned by Haywood's platoon, how many have VC suspects?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a white guy from D.C. that Haywood meets just after joining Tango Squad?

2. What did Haywood see in a vision when he was twelve?

3. What does Haywood remember about night movement in a monsoon?

4. Why couldn't Richard sleep the first night he was home?

5. Why does Malik have to spend seven days in the brig?

6. What did Richard do when some white guys in a car cut him off and honked the horn?

7. Why did some guys call Emmanuel a VC sympathizer?

8. What three alternatives does Charles have after his third dream?

9. How does Light Bulb get a man off a mine that he had stepped on?

10. By 1969, what new type of black soldier appeared in Vietnam?

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