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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Page offered?
(a) A book deal
(b) A movie deal
(c) A position with Time magazine
(d) Money from the government for his wound

2. What question does Prager ask the General?
(a) How to win the war
(b) If they can have steak for dinner
(c) For extra troops at Khe Sanh
(d) What he would do if the NVA attack Khe Sanh and supporting bases at once

3. What does one correspondent ride through the middle of a battle?
(a) A tank
(b) A bicycle
(c) An open top jeep
(d) A water buffalo

4. What do officials do to make things seem better than they are?
(a) Tell lies in their reports
(b) Send gifts to the Marines
(c) Shorten tours of duty
(d) Give monthly R&R passes to soldiers

5. When does Operation Pegasus begin?
(a) January 1
(b) April 1
(c) March 31
(d) August 1

6. What is the loud hammering Herr hears inside the Chinook helicopter?
(a) The propellors falling off
(b) The gunfire issuing from the helicopter
(c) Bullets hitting the underside of the helicopter
(d) The sound of bombs exploding in the air around the helicopter

7. What is a Seabee?
(a) A construction battalion
(b) The coast guard
(c) A Navy Seal
(d) A Green Beret trained in aquatics

8. How much money does one official say a dead Marine costs?
(a) A thousand dollars
(b) Eighteen thousand dollars
(c) Five thousand dollars
(d) Eighteen hundred dollars

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

10. How many writers does Herr estimate are in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive?
(a) 60-70
(b) 600-700
(c) 100-200
(d) 6-7

11. What do the Marines discover in the hills?
(a) Entrenched NVA troops
(b) The NVA left in a hurry
(c) Massacred villagers
(d) Ammunition and arms supplies

12. What does Davies' in-country wife do for a living?
(a) She works in the EM Club
(b) She sells vegetables
(c) She is a prostitute
(d) She cleans latrines

13. What do Red Cross nurses offer soldiers returning from battle?
(a) A beer
(b) Coffee
(c) A hot bath
(d) A night in town

14. Herr compares the landscape around Khe Sanh to what?
(a) A beautiful painting
(b) A dead body
(c) A volcanic eruption
(d) A moonscape

15. Who does Herr dread becoming like?
(a) Aging journalists
(b) The zombie soldiers
(c) Page and Flynn
(d) The Montagnards

Short Answer Questions

1. What rock and roll artist does one soldier play during a firefight?

2. What did the NVA leave behind?

3. What do the NVA have that no one expected them to have?

4. What does the NCO's friend do to their school teacher?

5. Who recognizes Herr at China Beach?

(see the answer keys)

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