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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does the patrol read about in a newspaper from home?
(a) They read about riots on the streets.
(b) They read about the first man on the moon.
(c) They read about war protesters in Washington, D.C.
(d) They read about more men being sent to Vietnam for duty.

2. Chapter 23 What does Hodges remember about the North Vietnamese when he sees Cat Man near a banana tree?
(a) He remembers that the North Vietnamese never eat bananas.
(b) He remembers that the North Vietnamese are superstitious about banana trees.
(c) He remembers that the North Vietnamese lay under the banana trees for shade.
(d) He remembers that the North Vietnamese sleep in the banana trees.

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

4. What do four hippies sitting outside a restaurant call Gilliland?
(a) Coward
(b) War Monger
(c) Baby Killer
(d) Killing Machine

5. Who denies access to Bagger when he wants to see his friend, Homicide?
(a) Rap Jones
(b) Snake
(c) Austin
(d) Cannonball

6. What does Bagger do when he hears the song, These Eyes?
(a) He looks at pictures of his wife and son.
(b) He sings along, even in battle.
(c) He starts crying.
(d) He gets up and dances with an invisible partner.

7. Why does Goodrich decide to be in Bagger's team?
(a) Goodrich doesn't get along with anyone on his own team.
(b) Goodrich feels he and Bagger are alike.
(c) Goodrich wants to harass Bagger.
(d) Goodrich is going to make Bagger toughen up.

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

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

10. Chapter 22 How many of Bagger's football team joined the Marines at the same time?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Eight
(d) Two

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

12. What does Goodrich plan to do when he gets into the Marines?
(a) Be a medic
(b) Play in the Marine Band
(c) Work on jets
(d) Be an infantryman

13. What does Austin rip off Phony's back?
(a) Phony's bed roll
(b) Phony's rifle
(c) Phony's shirt with a peace sign on it
(d) Phony's backpack

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

15. What condition are Ogre and Baby Cakes in when they are found?
(a) They were stabbed.
(b) They were beaten to death.
(c) They were both shot in the forehead.
(d) They were hanged from a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Major Otto tell Hodges about Arizona Valley?

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

3. Where do Snake and Hodges plan to ambush next?

4. Chapter 20 Where is Gilliland meeting his wife on his last day as a Marine?

5. What is Cannonball's reaction to Homicide's comments about fighting a white man's war?

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