Dispatches Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Dispatches Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. No soldier would want to return home with this.
(a) Shell shock
(b) Lost limbs
(c) Depression
(d) Malaria

2. What does one soldier do when he sees Herr's bloody nose?
(a) Gives him a medal
(b) Laughs
(c) Rushes him to Medevac
(d) Takes his gun away

3. What two emotions does Herr feel looking at pictures of dead people?
(a) Shock and fascination
(b) Fascination and Horror
(c) Repulsion and fascination
(d) Shock and Repulsion

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

5. How long does it take for Herr to hear all the variations of war stories?
(a) One year
(b) A month
(c) Two years
(d) Six months

6. Some soldiers feel they must stop the war or Communism will go where?
(a) China
(b) South America
(c) The entire world
(d) The United States

7. When is the Khe Sanh Combat Base started?
(a) 1965
(b) 1954
(c) 1967
(d) 1962

8. Where does Herr find himself during a downpour?
(a) An airfield in Kontum
(b) A hotel in Saigon
(c) China Beach
(d) A bunker in the jungle

9. What phrase is used even though most soldiers don't mean it?
(a) Break a Leg
(b) Good Luck
(c) Good Job
(d) Give them Heck

10. What do the soldiers trade for the marijuana?
(a) Ammunition
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Food rations
(d) Weapons

11. Where is Herr working as a war correspondent?
(a) Korea
(b) Germany
(c) The Pentagon
(d) South Vietnam

12. Where do the American soldiers get marijuana?
(a) At the PX
(b) From their COs
(c) In the mountains
(d) From Vietnamese soldiers

13. What is the term for the condition which affects many soldiers experiencing terrible events in war?
(a) Shell Shock
(b) Agoraphobia
(c) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(d) Veteran's disease

14. The VC conserves what?
(a) Ammunition
(b) Troops
(c) Weapon stores
(d) Food

15. What does Herr wear on his first day in Vietnam?
(a) Shorts and a Hawaiin shirt
(b) Combat boots, shorts and a flack jacket
(c) New fatigues
(d) Jeans, a tie-dye t-shirt and flip flops

Short Answer Questions

1. When was terrorism at its worst?

2. What does Herr say finally happened to the young marine?

3. What do the troops find in the city of Hue?

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

5. The soldiers feel that the actual death count is closer to how many times the official count?

(see the answer keys)

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