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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. What do the American soldiers remove from the dead soldiers to keep the enemy from identifying them?
(a) Their dog tags.
(b) Their state I.D.s
(c) Their passports.
(d) Their driver's licences.

2. Which character gets into a power struggle with Stewart, telling the men to follow him when Stewart tells them all to stay down?
(a) Rings.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Peewee.
(d) Richie.

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

4. When the Vietcong are hiding under the water, what are they breathing with?
(a) Straws.
(b) Reeds.
(c) Oxygen tanks.
(d) Scuba gear.

5. What is attached to the young Vietnamese child that Peewee makes a doll for?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A letter.
(c) A lunch sack.
(d) A flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. During a fight with Vietnamese soldiers, where is Richie shot?

2. How does Richie feel when he is running to escape the fighting in the village?

3. What is Johnson's advice to Richie when they are discussing the war protesters?

4. Whose nineteenth birthday is celebrated by the troops when they return from the mission in the Vietnamese village?

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 letter does Gearhart give to Richie and Walowick to hold onto?

3. What does Richie do with his Purple Heart?

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

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

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

7. How does Richie kill his first Vietcong soldier, and what is his reaction to the killing?

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

9. What happens when the allies bring in a Vietnamese mother and her two small children found wandering around the rice paddies?

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

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