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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the extent of Vitelli's injuries?
(a) He is shot in the neck.
(b) He is shot in the foot.
(c) He has shrapnel in the abdomen.
(d) He has a lethal shot to the chest.

2. What is Hodges thinking as he watches his men dying in Arizona Valley?
(a) He will be in Arizona Valley the next day.
(b) He has to figure out a way home.
(c) He will design a plan to go AWOL.
(d) He will ask to be reassigned.

3. Chapter 7 Who does a great job digging and engineering two holes that Hodges notices?
(a) Senator
(b) Snake
(c) Flaky
(d) The Vietnamese enemy

4. What changes Hodges' mind about being excited to be in the war?
(a) He doesn't like being in the jungle.
(b) He is not assigned to the unit he wanted.
(c) The severed hand of a soldier lands near him when a bomb goes off fifty feet from his cot.
(d) He is slightly injured as he lies on his cot.

5. What is the worst enemy abuse that Goodrich remembers seeing?
(a) Two Vietnamese soldiers thrown into a pit of bodies
(b) Two Vietnamese soldiers, scorched from head to foot and blinded, come to the camp to surrender.
(c) Food is taken away from a Vietnamese woman and child
(d) A Vietnamese soldier is shot in the knee and thrown in the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 13 What is a sign that the enemy is near?

2. Chapter 17 Why does a new trench hole have to be dug by the Marines rather than their using an old trench hole?

3. Why does Snake argue with Austin about the LP duty assignment?

4. What is Goodrich's strength as he sits contemplating after the battle?

5. Chapter 8 How does Senator's friend, John Grimsley, get out of going to Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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