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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Part I Colleagues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Marines discover in the hills?
(a) Massacred villagers
(b) The NVA left in a hurry
(c) Ammunition and arms supplies
(d) Entrenched NVA troops

2. What does the photographer witness soldiers doing with VC bodies?
(a) Dropping them out of a helicopter
(b) Lighting them on fire
(c) Hanging them from trees
(d) Burying them in a mass grave

3. When did Dien Bien Phu occur?
(a) 1962
(b) 1954
(c) 1967
(d) 1965

4. What is another term for shell shock?
(a) Agoraphobia
(b) acute envronmental reaction
(c) veteran's disease
(d) post traumatic stress disorder

5. When do the Marines finally leave Khe Sanh?
(a) They spend the rest of the war at Khe Sanh
(b) They are under siege and cannot leave
(c) The Marines establish a permanent base at Khe Sanh
(d) In the spring

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the correspondent Herr travels with across the DMZ?

2. Where does Herr find himself during a downpour?

3. What does Herr wear on his first day in Vietnam?

4. What sights upset Day Tripper?

5. What is the most popular strategy for ending the war according to the soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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