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

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

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

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

5. Which correspondent suffers a severe accident?
(a) Flynn
(b) Smitty
(c) Herr
(d) Page

6. How old is Page on his next birthday?
(a) 30
(b) 21
(c) 25
(d) 20

7. Where does Herr go following Khe Sanh?
(a) China Beach
(b) United States
(c) Saigon
(d) China

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

9. What is the name of the relief operation at Khe Sanh?
(a) Operation Winged-Horse
(b) Operation Pegasus
(c) Operation Get Out Now
(d) Operation Eagle

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

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

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

13. With which newspaper is Peter Braestrup associated?
(a) New York Times
(b) Philadelphia Enquirer
(c) Boston Globe
(d) Washington Post

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the reporter who earns respect by taking point during patrols?

2. What news of Mayhew does Herr receive at China Beach?

3. What do the soldiers do in China Beach?

4. What does Davies' in-country wife do for a living?

5. What is the General's response?

(see the answer keys)

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