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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Herr find himself during a downpour?
2. Why do military officials say Khe Sanh is different from Dien Bien Phu?
3. What is the trick to survival?
4. Who fires on the soldiers Herr travels with?
5. Who is Seann Flynn's famous father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the result of the siege at Khe Sanh?
2. Who is the Khe Sanh press secretary and what is his role in the Khe Sanh siege?
3. Discuss Page's wound and his recovery.
4. Discuss what an NVA attack on Khe Sanh with the tanks would mean for the American soldiers.
5. Describe China Beach and what soldiers do there.
6. Describe the increasing intensity of the war and what the NVA are planning.
7. Herr talks with a black Marine about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. What impact does the assassination have on the black soldiers in Vietnam?
8. How does the presence of the correspondents lend importance to missions and also detract from the importance of the soldiers job?
9. How does the news of Day Tripper and Mayhew affect Herr's time at China Beach?
10. What timeframe is Herr writing during? Is there any significance to the fact that he is writing at this time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the rock and roll culture in America during the 1960s. How did the music parallel the political environment of the decade? How did the lives of the rock artists mimic the experiences of the Vietnam soldiers?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the use of illegal drugs and marijuana among Vietnam soldiers. Why were the drugs used? How were they obtained? What effect did the drugs have on the soldiers? What happened when strung out soldiers returned to the United States? Did the use of drugs in Vietnam influence the drug culture in America? How so?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how exhaustion and frustration with the war affect the soldiers. What do the soldiers do that costs some of them their lives? What has their time in country done to their belief in the war and in the odds of survival?
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