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

2. How many days and nights does Charles say that it rains during monsoon season?

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

4. Where was Wallace Terry working when he was asked to cover a story on the role of the black soldier in the Vietnam War?

5. When do Haywood and the others rob the post office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Luther get a Bronze Star for his part in the hospital attack?

8. What types of things would Luther order for the Vietnamese?

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

10. What is Haywood's most fearful moment?

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

Compare and contrast the way that soldiers treated both military and civilian Vietnamese. Use examples from "Bloods."

Essay Topic 3

Argue whether most of the soldiers were or were not given the respect they deserved when they returned home. Use examples from "Bloods."

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