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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. How long would the taste of the Atrabrine pills that Ned had to take stay with him?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 20 minutes.
(d) Hours.

2. What was the name of the lieutenant who ordered Bill McCable and Sam Begay to send a sample field message when they first arrived on the battlefield?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Watson.
(c) Miller.
(d) Hunt.

3. In Chapter 15, how many men were in the Third Division, Ninth Regiment?
(a) 17,000.
(b) 14,000.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 21,000.

4. What was the name of the general that Sam Begay and Bill McCabe were to report to when they were first sent to the Canal?
(a) General Spaatz.
(b) General King.
(c) General Vandegrift.
(d) General Nimitz.

5. How tall was the birthday cake in Chapter 18 for the Marine Corps?
(a) 6 feet.
(b) 3 feet.
(c) 4 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, how long had it been since the Marine Corps was founded?

2. As far as Ned remembered, how many Navajo code talkers received a rank above corporal?

3. What did "Banzai" (123) mean?

4. When did Ned's training end?

5. In Chapter 12, how much money was Ned's platoon given to finance a ceremonial dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was security like for the code?

2. What happened to the Japanese women and children on Saipan when the Marines invaded and why?

3. How did Ned try to avoid taking Atabrine, and how did the watch officer get him and the other Navajos to take it?

4. How did the Marines in the Pacific get things?

5. What did the Navajo believe about corpses, and how did they deal with that in combat?

6. What advice did George Kirk give Ned and why?

7. What happened the first time that Bill McCabe and Sam Begay used Navajo code?

8. In Chapter 22, why was Ned sent to Hawaii?

9. Of the 12 landing zones in Chapter 17, why was Blue Beach the worst?

10. What did it take to secure Guadalcanal?

(see the answer keys)

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