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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 does Light Bulb's father do for a living?

2. When is the last time Emmanuel hears from his Vietnamese wife?

3. Where is Light Bulb's home town?

4. When Haywood is moving in the night during a monsoon, how far does he fall when he falls into a well?

5. How many months of training in Vietnamese language, customs, and history does Luther have before going to Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Luther think he hears one evening outside his bunker at the hospital?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why don't officers want to be saluted at the front?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some of the soldiers seemed to lose their faith and others seemed to have a stronger faith in God after the war. Explain the different ways that Vietnam affected soldiers' faith in God.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the courage and cowardice of the soldiers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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