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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a LRRP?
(a) Long Range Reporting Party
(b) Last Roving Reporting Patrol
(c) Long Range Recruit Party
(d) Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol

2. What is a TAOR?
(a) Tactical Base of Responsiblity
(b) Tactical Army of Response
(c) Tactics Armory of Reconnaissance
(d) Training And Ovation Response

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

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

5. The dreams of the soldiers become what?
(a) Torturous
(b) Calming
(c) Psychadelic
(d) Physical battles

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

7. Which president declares that Khe Sanh cannot fall to the NVA?
(a) Nixon
(b) JFK
(c) Lyndon Johnson
(d) Adams

8. What is the most popular strategy for ending the war according to the soldiers?
(a) Remaining in Vietnam forever
(b) Going home
(c) Levelling the country
(d) Letting the NVA take over

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

10. What happens to South Vietnamese at Hue?
(a) They are taken to POW camps
(b) They are executed by NVA
(c) They are recruited by the Americans
(d) They are given reprive to go home

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

12. When does the Dak To battle take place?
(a) November 1967
(b) March 1967
(c) April 1971
(d) December 1954

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

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

15. The Marines feel one of them is worth how many regular soldiers?
(a) Five
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) Ten

Short Answer Questions

1. Reporters compare the Khe Sanh base to what other military conflict?

2. Who does Herr tour a palace with?

3. What is the official death toll for Ia Drang listed at?

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

5. The NVA hold what building in Hue?

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