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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. Who is loaded onto the helicopter with Richie after he has been shot?
(a) Brew.
(b) Peewee.
(c) Lieutenant Doyle.
(d) Sergeant Simpson.

2. How many of the three soldiers--Peewee, Richie, and the captive--are able to escape the Vietnamese troops?
(a) One of them.
(b) Two of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) All three of them.

3. Which soldier freezes in sudden panic and needs Gearhart to scream him back into obedience?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Peewee.
(c) Monaco.
(d) Jamal.

4. What is the name of the soldier who is mortally wounded during the same fight in which Richie is shot?
(a) Brunner.
(b) Monaco.
(c) Lobel.
(d) Brew.

5. Why doesn't the grenade that Richie throws into the Vietnamese hut explode?
(a) Because the powder was wet.
(b) Because the hut was already on fire.
(c) Because the grenade was old.
(d) Because he forgets to pull the pin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Vietnamese allies want the American troops to help them capture?

2. Who is the first to open fire on the Vietnamese soldiers, allowing the chopper to land safely?

3. What type of award is Richie given from the army after his injuries?

4. What does the squad advise the soldier, whose girlfriend proposed marriage, to do?

5. In Earlene's letter to Richie, what does she apologize for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation does Richie get into with Johnson about the war protesters?

2. How does it come to be that Richie is shot?

3. What happens during the Lieutenant Gearhart's first reconnaissance mission in Vietnam?

4. What offer does Gearhart make for the troops, when it is realized that the squads are unequally staffed?

5. Why do the rescue choppers open fire on the Vietnamese allies?

6. What does Richie do with his Purple Heart?

7. What do the American soldiers see when they return to the village in Vietnam that they had recently tried to pacify?

8. How do the American soldiers prepare the bodies of their fallen soldiers so that the enemy cannot mutilate them?

9. In Kenny's letter to Richie about Johnny Robinson, what does he say?

10. When does Richie realize that Johnson would have been a natural-born leader?

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