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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. Which of the following does Richie NOT wonder about the dead Vietcong soldier?
(a) Whether or not he had children.
(b) What his hopes for the future were.
(c) What his family was like.
(d) What his life in Vietnam was like.

2. When going on pacification missions, Lobel compares their company to outlaws in what type of movie?
(a) Western.
(b) Science Fiction.
(c) Horror.
(d) Foreign Film.

3. Who does Johnson get into a racially charged argument with?
(a) Rings.
(b) Walowick.
(c) Sergeant Simpson.
(d) Peewee.

4. When the troops go on pacification missions, who are they trying to convince the villagers are the enemy?
(a) Their fellow villagers.
(b) The French.
(c) The communists.
(d) The American soldiers.

5. Why does the large black soldier in the breakfast hall suggest that the three of them should stick together?
(a) Because they are all black.
(b) Because they are all poor.
(c) Because they are all afraid.
(d) Because they are all in the same platoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. While out on patrol in the jungle, what game does Charlie Company stop to play?

2. What is the name of the soldier who begins crying on the truck ride to the new camp?

3. When the soldiers are at their layover in Japan, where are they forced to sleep?

4. What is the name of the soldier that approaches Richie and Peewee in the breakfast hall?

5. When the troops receive word about Charlie Company, how many of their men have been lost?

Short Essay Questions

1. What offer does Lieutenant Carroll give to Richie in regard to his medical records, and what is Richie's response?

2. Why is Richie's troop reassigned from the pacification mission in the village?

3. What happens when Richie sees the body bags lined up at his base?

4. What are the soldiers told during their orientation speech upon arrival to Chu Lia?

5. What happens during the new soldiers first night on patrol?

6. What reasons drew Richie into joining the army?

7. How does RIchie cope with the trauma that he witnesses while on patrol with the Charlie Company?

8. What is Richie's response to seeing his first dead enemy soldier?

9. What happens to Richie's knee, and why is he still sent to Vietnam?

10. During the slow days, what does Richie learn about his fellow soldiers Brew, Lobel, and Monaco?

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