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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the trick to survival?
(a) Stay put
(b) Keep your head low
(c) Always keep moving
(d) Listen to your commander
2. What type of people are the Montagnards?
(a) Reclusive and primitive
(b) South Vietnamese guerillas
(c) NVA outcasts
(d) City dwellers
3. Herr encounters a soldier with a bag full of what?
(a) Dog tags
(b) Buffalo patties
(c) Marijuana
(d) Dried human ears
4. What are the streets of Saigon full of?
(a) Prostitutes
(b) Crime and trash
(c) Dead soldiers
(d) Animals
5. When do NVA troops begin building up around the Khe Sanh base?
(a) 1967
(b) 1965
(c) 1966
(d) 1962
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens on the day the young marine is supposed to leave?
2. What geographical area is close to Khe Sanh and is dangerous even without the war?
3. Where does Saigon look beautiful?
4. Some soldiers feel they must stop the war or Communism will go where?
5. Where does Herr place Khe Sanh?
Short Essay Questions
1. Khe Sanh is compared to another battle fought nearly ten years earlier. What is the name of that battle and what happened?
2. Describe Herr's first encounter with the Marines and how that affects Herr.
3. What are the two realities of Vietnam and how do they differ?
4. How does the chapter's title reflect the feelings of the soldiers and differ from the upper brass's description of the war?
5. Discuss the soldier who has already served three tours in Vietnam and wants to re-enlist for a fourth.
6. Why do soldiers take body part trophies? Does drug use play a role in this practice?
7. Describe the increasing intensity of the war and what the NVA are planning.
8. Describe China Beach and what soldiers do there.
9. Describe the battle for the Citadel in Hue.
10. Why do you think the chaplain lies to the soldier whose legs have been blown off?
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