Dispatches Test | Final Test - Easy

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Dispatches Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which general do Herr and Prager meet?
(a) General Thompson
(b) General North
(c) General Eisenhower
(d) General Tompkins

2. Where is Mayhew's friend recovering before returning to Khe Sanh?
(a) Hue
(b) China Beach
(c) Danang
(d) Saigon

3. What sights upset Day Tripper?
(a) Mayhew losing a leg
(b) Wounded
(c) The NVA soldiers hanging on the wire fence
(d) Piles of dead Vietnamese

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

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

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

7. What does Herr begin the chapter with?
(a) A listing of soldiers who died at Khe Sanh
(b) An account of the Tet Offensive
(c) Twenty accounts that happen during Vietnam
(d) A memory from his childhood

8. According to Herr, how do the higher levels of the military behave?
(a) They refuse to communicate with the press
(b) They lie to make things appear better than they are
(c) They are congenial but evasive
(d) They tell the truth as painful as it may be

9. Who are the two men Herr meets in Khe Sanh?
(a) Mayhew and Page
(b) Day Tripper and Mayhew
(c) Dana Stone and Day Tripper
(d) Page and Flynn

10. What is the name of the 26th Marines company?
(a) Charlie Company
(b) Motel Company
(c) Inn Good Company
(d) Hotel Company

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

12. What does Mayhew announce that upsets Day Tripper?
(a) He killed an innocent Vietnamese woman
(b) He has asked for a transfer
(c) He is being sent home
(d) He has extended his stay by four months

13. Where is Day Tripper and Mayhew's bunker located?
(a) Near the perimeter
(b) In the back of the base
(c) The stay in a Temple
(d) Between Khe Sanh and Langvei

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

15. What is an RPG?
(a) A Rocket Placed Grenade
(b) A Rocket Propelled Grenade
(c) A Rolling Pocket Grenande
(d) A Reinforcement Platoon Grange

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the relief operation at Khe Sanh?

2. How many meters separate the bunkers and the NVA trenches?

3. What do Red Cross nurses offer soldiers returning from battle?

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

5. Where does the Cav build a sprawling base?

(see the answer keys)

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