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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the NCO's friend do to their school teacher?
(a) Grabs her bottom
(b) Asks her on a date
(c) Makes her cry
(d) Licks her face

2. Herr calls war correspondents what?
(a) Pretend Soldiers
(b) War Heroes
(c) Those Crazy Guys who Cover the War
(d) Idiots

3. What does Herr talk about with a black Marine?
(a) The end of the war
(b) The drug culture among marines
(c) The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) The accuracy of press coverage

4. How do many of the correspondents act during the war?
(a) As if they are soldiers
(b) As if they are on vacation
(c) As if it is a war movie
(d) As if they are government officials

5. Why do the men hear continuous machine gun fire at night?
(a) An NVA is stuck on the wire around the base
(b) An American soldier went crazy and is spraying the base
(c) A water buffalo ran into the gun and knocked it down
(d) They are suffering dreams from smoking marijuana

6. What are the two realities of the war?
(a) That the VC keep coming and death
(b) Death and battle
(c) drugs and death
(d) What the Marines experience and what the officials report

7. What is the unspoken fear Herr does not mention?
(a) That the NVA will overrun Khe Sanh like Langvei
(b) That he will not get out of Khe Sanh alive
(c) That the NVA have more unknown weapons
(d) That Americans will run out of ammunition

8. What two things mark his visits with friends?
(a) Memories and Drugs
(b) Drugs and alcohol
(c) Marijuana use and Strange Dreams
(d) Longing and emptiness

9. Where are Day Tripper and Mayhew from respectively?
(a) Kansas City and Atlanta
(b) Chicago and Detroit
(c) Detroit and Kansas City
(d) Detroit and New York City

10. What is China Beach?
(a) The head of military operations
(b) A place where correspondents give press junkets
(c) Another military base
(d) A place for in-country R&R

11. How many meters separate the bunkers and the NVA trenches?
(a) One hundred
(b) Three hundred
(c) Twenty
(d) Five hundred

12. Who do Prager and Herr meet with?
(a) General Tompkins
(b) The leader of the NVA
(c) President Johnson
(d) They attend a press junket

13. Who is the correspondent Herr travels with across the DMZ?
(a) Dana Stone
(b) Steven Miles
(c) Seann Flynn
(d) Karsten Prager

14. What does Herr choose not to carry with him that many other reporters carry?
(a) His credentials
(b) Cameras
(c) Extra ammunition
(d) Extra food

15. What does the photographer witness soldiers doing with VC bodies?
(a) Burying them in a mass grave
(b) Hanging them from trees
(c) Lighting them on fire
(d) Dropping them out of a helicopter

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one correspondent ride through the middle of a battle?

2. Where are the smaller bases built?

3. Why does Seann Flynn not seem to fit in a combat zone?

4. What did the NVA leave behind?

5. What news of Day Tripper does Herr receive at China Beach?

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