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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?
(a) He is humorless, dry voiced, and old for thirty one.
(b) He is aggressive and mean spirited.
(c) He is funny and exuberant.
(d) He is friendly, mild, and child-like.

2. What saves Senator from being riddled with bullets?
(a) He falls into a crater.
(b) He crawls behind a large tree.
(c) New Mac covers him with return fire.
(d) He crawls into an open grave.

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 eats rotten food hoping to get food poisoning.
(c) He hopes to get an infection from rubbing jam into his gook sores.
(d) He plans to break his finger.

4. Chapter 20 Where is Gilliland meeting his wife on his last day as a Marine?
(a) Pismo Beach
(b) Da Nang
(c) Quantico, VA
(d) South Carolina

5. 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) He can't be bothered and changes his mind.
(b) The villagers refuse the transport.
(c) The resettlement village is supposedly full.
(d) He is refused transport.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Goodrich's view of bush justice?

2. What is the worst enemy abuse that Goodrich remembers seeing?

3. How does Cat Man get his nickname?

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

5. What does the enemy use as a distraction from the ambush?

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