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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 14 What is Gilliland looking forward to after his ten years of military service?
(a) Working as a private detective
(b) Joining the police force
(c) Travelling across the USA
(d) Rest and relaxation

2. What are Snake and the other men so excited about as they travel from the helicopter pad?
(a) Returning to the jungle
(b) Four days off in An Hoa
(c) The large number of the enemy they have killed
(d) Four days off in Hanoi

3. What is the plan Senator devises to make him sick enough to go for treatment to the Battalion Aid Station?
(a) He decides to shoot off a toe.
(b) He plans to break his finger.
(c) He hopes to get an infection from rubbing jam into his gook sores.
(d) He eats rotten food hoping to get food poisoning.

4. What is Goodrich offered after he writes a report about the killing of the man and woman?
(a) He will be stationed outside of Vietnam.
(b) He will be sent back to the World.
(c) He will be removed from his company.
(d) He will be discharged.

5. Chapter 17 Why does a new trench hole have to be dug by the Marines rather than their using an old trench hole?
(a) The old hole is unsafe and likely to cave in.
(b) The old hole could be booby-trapped or known by the enemy.
(c) It is bad luck to use an old hole.
(d) The old hole is usually rancid from overuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 10 What is available to the men at Liberty Bridge?

2. 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?

3. What does Goodrich see hanging from a helicopter that is passing above him?

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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