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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does JUSPAO stand for?
(a) Joint US Public Affairs Office
(b) Journalists from US Publishing Articles Overseas
(c) Joining United States Publishers Articles Overseas
(d) Joint US Publishing Affairs Organization

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

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

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

5. What do the soldiers do in China Beach?
(a) Engage in training missions
(b) Soak up the sun, take hot showers, eat hot food
(c) Work in rice fields
(d) Resupply ammunition, weapons, and fuel supplies of other troops

6. Where are the smaller bases built?
(a) Along the route to Hue
(b) Along the route to Khe Sanh
(c) Along the route to My Lai
(d) Along the route to Saigon

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

8. Who gets regular leave to China Beach?
(a) Good combat Marines
(b) The Press Corps
(c) The officers
(d) Wounded Marines

9. What do the NVA have that no one expected them to have?
(a) Soviet tanks
(b) American weapons
(c) French Rocket Launchers
(d) Helicopters

10. What did the NVA leave behind?
(a) Complete encampments
(b) Abandoned packs and equipment
(c) Food supplies
(d) Guns and ammunition

11. Herr compares some of the reporters to what other profession?
(a) secretaries
(b) accountants
(c) movie stars
(d) police officers

12. What is the General's response?
(a) He doubts the NVA can make such a manuver
(b) He is pulling American troops out of Khe Sanh
(c) He wants the NVA to attack Khe Sanh
(d) He is calling in more troops

13. What news of Day Tripper does Herr receive at China Beach?
(a) He is dead
(b) He has been stationed in Saigon
(c) He has been sent home
(d) He is also in China Beach

14. How does Herr find the conditions now in Khe Sanh?
(a) Devastated
(b) Greatly improved
(c) About the same
(d) No change

15. What does Herr suffer his first month back in America?
(a) Malaria
(b) Strange dreams
(c) Danang Fever
(d) Pneumonia

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Herr, how do the higher levels of the military behave?

2. How often do soldiers get to go to China Beach?

3. What is the loud hammering Herr hears inside the Chinook helicopter?

4. What is the weapon that kills Mayhew?

5. Who recognizes Herr at China Beach?

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