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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 do the VC fire directly at the bunker where Luther and Gillis are during the hospital attack?

2. Where does Haywood spend his last six months in the army?

3. What is Haywood's favorite game in high school?

4. When does Charles leave the military?

5. Where is Light Bulb's home town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Malik go into the service?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explain how fear affected the soldiers in Vietnam and when they returned home and how fear influenced their behavior. Use examples from "Bloods."

Essay Topic 2

There were good officers and there were bad officers. Compare and contrast the different types of officers that were seen in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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