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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Prager and Herr meet with?
(a) The leader of the NVA
(b) General Tompkins
(c) President Johnson
(d) They attend a press junket

2. Although Herr keeps in contact with his friends and colleagues when he returns to the States, he feels what?
(a) Depressed
(b) Psychotic
(c) Incomplete
(d) Happy

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

4. Why do the men hear continuous machine gun fire at night?
(a) An NVA is stuck on the wire around the base
(b) They are suffering dreams from smoking marijuana
(c) A water buffalo ran into the gun and knocked it down
(d) An American soldier went crazy and is spraying the base

5. What do the Marines find in the hills once occupied by the NVA?
(a) That the NVA had mass weapon caches in the hills
(b) That the NVA are still hiding in spider holes
(c) That they left in a hurry leaving their packs behind
(d) That the NVA were not as numerous as believed

Short Answer Questions

1. Herr begins the chapter with a scene from what war?

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

3. How does Herr find the conditions now in Khe Sanh?

4. When does Operation Pegasus begin?

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

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