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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Hodges' men take position?
(a) Up river
(b) In a nearby bunker
(c) In the hills
(d) Along the perimeter of a paddy

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

4. What does Cat Man do after he quits school at sixteen?
(a) He robs a gas station.
(b) He sells drugs on the street.
(c) He marries his high school sweetheart.
(d) He goes to work in the fields.

5. What happens as Waterbull sits under his hooch looking at a picture?
(a) He starts to cry as he thinks of home.
(b) He is attacked by the enemy and shot three times.
(c) A grenade is thrown into his hooch.
(d) He is bitten by a poisonous snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snake's mother find so frustrating about her son?

2. What is it called when helicopters drop aviation fuel into the rice seed beds?

3. Chapter 23 What does Hodges remember about the North Vietnamese when he sees Cat Man near a banana tree?

4. Where do the men gather as the sun begins to fall?

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

(see the answer key)

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