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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 does the squad advise the soldier, whose girlfriend proposed marriage, to do?
(a) Dump her.
(b) Lie to her.
(c) Think about his answer.
(d) Marry her.

2. What do the American soldiers do to the bodies of their dead soldiers to prevent the enemy from mutilating them?
(a) Bury the bodies.
(b) Carry the bodies home with them.
(c) Drown the bodies.
(d) Burn the bodies.

3. After the trauma of visiting the recently pacified Vietnamese village, whose bed does Richie sleep in for comfort?
(a) Peewee's.
(b) Monaco's.
(c) Ring's.
(d) Lobel's.

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

5. When Richie thinks about going AWOL, what country does he plan to run to?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Canada.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Denmark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richie do when Brew is dying?

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

3. How does Richie get away from the fight after he has been shot?

4. What does Richie think that his time in the hospital has done to him?

5. During the fight to reclaim Vietnamese land, what part of Dongan's body is blown off?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What race relation issues come to light during the time of Vietnamese Tet?

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

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

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

9. What letter does Gearhart give to Richie and Walowick to hold onto?

10. What power struggle arises between Johnson and Stewart in the battlefield of the reclaimed hill?

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