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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 character strongly wishes he had a wife a kids waiting for him at home?
(a) Richie.
(b) Lobel.
(c) Peewee.
(d) Walowick.

2. Where do Richie and Peewee make their way to after being separated from the squad?
(a) Back to their camp.
(b) They travel nowhere, opting to stay in the place they were separated.
(c) Out to an open field.
(d) Back to the original chopper landing zone.

3. Who tells Richie that there is no meaning to the war in Vietnam?
(a) Brunner.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Rings.
(d) Brew.

4. What is waiting for Richie when he enters one of the huts in the recently pacified village?
(a) A terrified kitten.
(b) A Vietcong soldier.
(c) A starving puppy.
(d) A crying child.

5. What does Richie tell Kenny in the letter he writes about the Vietcong soldier?
(a) That the soldier deserved to die for being communist.
(b) That the soldier deserved to die because he attacked Richie first.
(c) Richie is unable to write his brother a letter.
(d) That the soldier deserved to die because he was a "bad guy."

Short Answer Questions

1. What offer does Gearhart give the soldiers to keep them safe?

2. After Richie and Peewee are separated from their squad, where do they spend the night?

3. Who does Brunner blame for the shortage of men in his squad?

4. Of all the men in the squad, who is viewed as their leader, described as having "quiet good sense"?

5. What happens when the soldiers realize that the war will not be ending anytime soon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Richie and Peewee spend the night when they are separated from their squad, and how do they find their way there?

2. What does Richie do with his Purple Heart?

3. Who is with Brew when he dies?

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

5. How does Richie explain the shooting of the Vietcong soldier to his brother, Kenny?

6. How does Monaco escape the clutches of the Vietnamese soldiers?

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

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

9. What is the reaction among the troops when the newspaper arrives with photos of war protesters burning their draft cards?

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

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