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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What dissolves among American soldiers after Ia Drang?
(a) confidence
(b) frustration
(c) arrogance
(d) morale
2. Where does the chapter's title come from?
(a) A popular song
(b) The nickname for the Tet Offensive
(c) A propaganda slogan
(d) A saying soldiers paint on their helmets
3. What is the trick to survival?
(a) Listen to your commander
(b) Always keep moving
(c) Keep your head low
(d) Stay put
4. The dreams of the soldiers become what?
(a) Physical battles
(b) Torturous
(c) Psychadelic
(d) Calming
5. How do soldiers ensure the enemy is dead?
(a) Dragging them from jeeps
(b) Running them over with tanks
(c) By dropping them from helicopters
(d) By shooting them an extra time
6. When is Herr in Vietnam?
(a) 1963 -1965
(b) 1967 - 1968
(c) 1965 -1967
(d) 1967 - 1969
7. What is the name of the river by Hue?
(a) The River of Tears
(b) The Perfume River
(c) The Khe Sahn River
(d) The Euphrates
8. What happens on the day the young marine is supposed to leave?
(a) He is killed
(b) He shoots himself in the hand
(c) He shoots himself in the foot
(d) He misses his transport
9. How does Herr get a bloody nose?
(a) He runs into a tree
(b) He is kicked in the nose by another soldier
(c) He is punched by Flynn
(d) He is hit by mortar fire
10. The Marines feel one of them is worth how many regular soldiers?
(a) One
(b) Five
(c) Two
(d) Ten
11. Where do the American soldiers get marijuana?
(a) From Vietnamese soldiers
(b) In the mountains
(c) At the PX
(d) From their COs
12. Who set the booby trap on the latrine?
(a) A soldier gone crazy
(b) The VC
(c) Vietnamese civilians
(d) The reporters
13. When was terrorism at its worst?
(a) 1965 -1973
(b) 1963 - 1965
(c) 1961-1963
(d) 1963-1973
14. Some soldiers feel they must stop the war or Communism will go where?
(a) The entire world
(b) The United States
(c) China
(d) South America
15. The VC conserves what?
(a) Troops
(b) Ammunition
(c) Food
(d) Weapon stores
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do military officials say Khe Sanh is different from Dien Bien Phu?
2. What do the troops find in the city of Hue?
3. Who says he is now emperor?
4. The NVA hold what building in Hue?
5. Where does Herr place Khe Sanh?
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