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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Breathing Out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is Herr in Vietnam?
(a) 1965 -1967
(b) 1967 - 1969
(c) 1967 - 1968
(d) 1963 -1965

2. Who is the reporter who earns respect by taking point during patrols?
(a) Herr
(b) Flynn
(c) Page
(d) Dana Stone

3. According to Herr, no parents want their son to return with this.
(a) Malaria
(b) Depression
(c) Gonorrhea
(d) Shell shock

4. What does Herr begin the chapter with?
(a) Twenty accounts that happen during Vietnam
(b) An account of the Tet Offensive
(c) A listing of soldiers who died at Khe Sanh
(d) A memory from his childhood

5. Herr compares being in battle to what?
(a) Riding a roller coaster
(b) Running with the bulls
(c) Driving a racecar
(d) The Alamo

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the trick to survival?

2. What are the two realities of the war?

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

4. What is the loud hammering Herr hears inside the Chinook helicopter?

5. What did the NVA leave behind?

(see the answer key)

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