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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a fatal mistake made by the Marines?
(a) Not having enough food
(b) Underestimating the enemy
(c) Not bringing enough ammunition
(d) Not calling for reinforcements

2. What do most of the soldiers try to avoid in one way or another?
(a) Wearing their dog tags
(b) Getting shot at
(c) Dreaming
(d) Going back to America

3. What does Herr call a company of soldiers returning from battle?
(a) A colony of stroke victims
(b) Baby killers
(c) Vietnams heroes
(d) Far from heroic

4. For how many miles does the front at Dak To stretch?
(a) Twenty
(b) Three
(c) Ten
(d) Thirty

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

6. Why do many soldiers miss details that could have kept them alive?
(a) Loss of Hearing
(b) They do not care to live
(c) Fatigue
(d) COs do not tell them

7. What is the trick to survival?
(a) Always keep moving
(b) Keep your head low
(c) Stay put
(d) Listen to your commander

8. Who fights with the Montagnards against the NVA?
(a) The South Vietnamese
(b) The Americans
(c) Vietnamese civilians
(d) The French

9. What two correspondents spend about a month with Herr?
(a) Page and Herman
(b) Flynn and Carter
(c) Flynn and Seann
(d) Page and Seann Flynn

10. Who does Herr tour a palace with?
(a) Major Trong
(b) Major Tonga
(c) Captain Trong
(d) Major Wong

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

12. What battles take place in 1965 that cost numerous American lives?
(a) Saigon
(b) Hue
(c) Ia Drang
(d) Khe Sanh

13. What type of people are the Montagnards?
(a) NVA outcasts
(b) Reclusive and primitive
(c) South Vietnamese guerillas
(d) City dwellers

14. What does one veteran correspondent say is the most useful thing to know in Vietnam?
(a) To know where to get drugs
(b) To get home quickly
(c) To learn how to fire a weapon properly
(d) To hit the floor quickly

15. What is the name of the river by Hue?
(a) The River of Tears
(b) The Euphrates
(c) The Perfume River
(d) The Khe Sahn River

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for the condition which affects many soldiers experiencing terrible events in war?

2. What happens to bodies that cannot be positively identified?

3. When is the Khe Sanh Combat Base started?

4. The dreams of the soldiers become what?

5. Where do the American soldiers get marijuana?

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