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

2. Who is defeated during the battle of Dien Bien Phu?
(a) The Chinese
(b) The French
(c) The Vietnamese
(d) The Americans

3. When was terrorism at its worst?
(a) 1963 - 1965
(b) 1965 -1973
(c) 1961-1963
(d) 1963-1973

4. Herr compares some of the reporters to what other profession?
(a) secretaries
(b) movie stars
(c) police officers
(d) accountants

5. Who gets regular leave to China Beach?
(a) The officers
(b) Wounded Marines
(c) The Press Corps
(d) Good combat Marines

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Seabee?

2. How do soldiers ensure the enemy is dead?

3. What does Davies' in-country wife do for a living?

4. What does Herr smoke before sleeping that causes him to have strange dreams?

5. Some soldiers feel they must stop the war or Communism will go where?

(see the answer key)

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