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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the villagers told they have to keep walking even after Hodges says that he will transport them to the resettlement village in a Medevac?
(a) The resettlement village is supposedly full.
(b) He is refused transport.
(c) The villagers refuse the transport.
(d) He can't be bothered and changes his mind.

2. What does Cannonball need to help digest all the changes taking place in the black community?
(a) He needs his father's strict hand.
(b) He needs his fellow brother's defiant words.
(c) He needs the Reverend's words every Sunday.
(d) He needs his mother's advice.

3. Chapter 13 What is a sign that the enemy is near?
(a) The water bulls disappear from the fields
(b) The smell of human sweat is in the air.
(c) The fields are silent.
(d) The birds begin to screech.

4. What is Hodges' reaction to Goodrich's insults?
(a) He is angry and ready for a fight.
(b) He is not bothered by it.
(c) He is amused.
(d) He is silently livid.

5. What is Hodges thinking when he sees that Flaky has been shot?
(a) He is sorry for not being a better friend to Flaky.
(b) He wishes someone else had been shot and not Flaky.
(c) He will be more attentive to Flaky from now on.
(d) He is glad it is Flaky that is shot and not someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Goodrich feel after his tirade about Hodges?

2. What does Bagger tell Hodges as they sit together on his cot?

3. What does Dan give a mamasan to give to her children?

4. Chapter 20 Where is Gilliland meeting his wife on his last day as a Marine?

5. What takes place while Boomer and Gilliland inspect the Vietnamese soldier who is dressed like a mamasan?

(see the answer key)

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