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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. Where is Light Bulb's home town?

2. In the early years of the Vietnam War, what percent of fatalities were blacks?

3. Why does Richard go on disability after serving as a federal agent?

4. Where does Light Bulb do his basic training?

5. How old was the youngest American soldier who died in combat in Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do forty men in Bravo Company get killed by friendly fire?

3. What does Charles say is his first contact with a real man?

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

5. What does Luther do when Gillis says they should do something about the injured during the hospital attack because they are corpsmen?

6. Why did Mr. Ku Klux Klan change his mind about blacks?

7. Why does Malik go into the service?

8. What will Charles do if he is ever asked to fight overseas again?

9. What special training did Luther have before he was sent to work in a hospital in Vietnam?

10. What happens in 1975 when Luther is in a room at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Norfolk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Norman McAlexander decides that God may not remove his trials, but will give him strength to get through them. Explain how this belief helped Norman endure prison and torture.

Essay Topic 2

Soldiers who were in Vietnam in the early years of the war describe a different type of war and a different type of soldier from what was seen toward the end of the war. Compare and contrast the war and the soldiers at the beginning and at the end of the war. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Officers and career soldiers had different views of the war and of the military than did the enlisted men. Compare and contrast the views of the officers and career soldiers with the views of the enlisted men. Use examples from "Bloods."

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