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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. Which member of Snake's platoon loses his leg?
(a) Flaky
(b) Kerlovic
(c) Corky
(d) Baby Cakes

2. What is Goodrich's strength as he sits contemplating after the battle?
(a) His happy memories of home
(b) Memories of his girlfriend
(c) The ghosts of his past
(d) The men in his unit

3. Why does Snake argue with Austin about the LP duty assignment?
(a) Snake's men will not be able to get back over the wire if attacked.
(b) Snake likes to argue with Austin about everything.
(c) Almost all of Snake's men are injured and need to recover.
(d) Snake's men just had duty and are tired.

4. Where is Goodrich attending college when he decides to enlist in the Marines?
(a) Boston University
(b) Suffolk University
(c) Harvard
(d) MIT

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. What is the one thing that Austin tells Hodges he won't tolerate?

2. What does Speedy offer to give Senator when he says that he wants to resign from the Marines?

3. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?

4. What is the plan Senator devises to make him sick enough to go for treatment to the Battalion Aid Station?

5. What is Hodges thinking as he watches his men dying in Arizona Valley?

(see the answer key)

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