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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following soldiers admits to joining the army so that his father wouldn't think that he was gay?
(a) Brew.
(b) Rings.
(c) Peewee.
(d) Lobel.

2. During the friendly fire of the Charlie Company patrol, how many American soldiers are killed?
(a) No American soldiers were killed.
(b) Seven.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Seventy.

3. Which military leader dies in a hospital after the attack?
(a) Captain Stewart.
(b) Lieutenant Doyle.
(c) Lieutenant Carroll.
(d) Sergeant Simpson.

4. While out on patrol in the jungle, what game does Charlie Company stop to play?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Backgammon.
(c) Cards.
(d) Chess.

5. During the slow days, what reports do the soldiers listen to on the radio?
(a) Reports of the number of soldiers killed in action.
(b) Reports of the weather throughout Vietnam.
(c) Reports of the Academy Award nominations.
(d) Reports of impending peace agreements.

6. What does Jenkins tell Richie that he fears about being in the army?
(a) That he will have to kill others.
(b) That he will love war.
(c) That he will be killed.
(d) That he won't be good at his job.

7. When Lobel is on patrol, what does he imagine is following him?
(a) A film camera.
(b) A black panther.
(c) The enemy.
(d) His mother.

8. What does the soldier in the breakfast hall call Peewee and Richie when they refuse his offer?
(a) Aunt Pats.
(b) Uncle Bills.
(c) Uncle Toms.
(d) Aunt Marys.

9. What is the name of the young, black medic?
(a) Jamal.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Jason.
(d) Jeremy.

10. What city is Lobel obsessed with, and constantly speaks about?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) New York.
(d) Hollywood.

11. Which soldier does Lobel lament always dies in wars?
(a) Comedic soldiers.
(b) Virgin soldiers.
(c) Under appreciated soldiers.
(d) Heroic soldiers.

12. What is Peewee's real name?
(a) Howard Gates.
(b) Harold Gates.
(c) Henry Gates.
(d) Humphry Gates.

13. What is the name of the soldier who begins crying on the truck ride to the new camp?
(a) Smithers.
(b) Jenkins.
(c) Billingtons.
(d) Codsworth.

14. Which of the following is NOT one of Peewee's life goals?
(a) To make love to a foreign woman.
(b) To smoke a cigar.
(c) To speak another language.
(d) To drink wine from a bottle with a cork.

15. Who is the first person that Peewee accuses of being a "Cong"?
(a) Their cleaning woman.
(b) Their cook.
(c) Their commanding officer.
(d) Their laundress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose address does Lobel offer to give Richie so that he'll have someone to write letters to?

2. What is the name of the company that Richie is sent on patrol with after missing his own squad's patrol?

3. What does the squad sergeant call inexperienced soldiers?

4. How is the soldier killed on the first night of patrol?

5. When Peewee is joking that he didn't know he was in Vietnam, where does he joke that he thinks he is?

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