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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 11 What do Speedy, Smitty, Senator, and Burgie witness as they lie beyond the barbed wire for their LP watch?
(a) The enemy runs into the jungle.
(b) A woman pulled from her hooch and killed by the enemy.
(c) A boy is killed by a grenade.
(d) The enemy opens fire on the northern compound.

2. How do the Marines refer to Go Noi?
(a) They refer to it as the Mile Wide Death Fields.
(b) They refer to it as the Mile Wide Killer Fields.
(c) They refer to it as the Elephant Grassland.
(d) They refer to it as Snake Ground.

3. 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 sleep in the banana trees.
(b) He remembers that the North Vietnamese are superstitious about banana trees.
(c) He remembers that the North Vietnamese never eat bananas.
(d) He remembers that the North Vietnamese lay under the banana trees for shade.

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

5. What does Cannonball do to get out on the Medevac?
(a) He frags himself in the buttocks.
(b) He shoots himself in the leg.
(c) He cuts off his thumb.
(d) He eats rotten food.

6. Chapter 2 What is the reason that Bobby Hodges enlists in the armed forces?
(a) His mother convinces him to go.
(b) He doesn't know what else to do with his life.
(c) He is carrying on the family tradition of fighting for his country.
(d) He is trying to escape a petty crime.

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

8. Before Snake enlists in the Marines, what type of tattoo does he get?
(a) An eagle and an American flag
(b) An evil clown
(c) A tattoo that says, MOM
(d) A skull encircled with two snakes that reads "Death before Dishonor"

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

10. Chapter 12 What kind of a childhood did Phony have?
(a) An unhappy childhood with his parents
(b) A happy childhood with his parents
(c) A happy childhood in a foster home
(d) A rough childhood in foster homes

11. 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 usually rancid from overuse.
(b) It is bad luck to use an old hole.
(c) The old hole could be booby-trapped or known by the enemy.
(d) The old hole is unsafe and likely to cave in.

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

13. Chapter 15 Why does Dan leave his family to fight in the war?
(a) He needs the weekly income.
(b) He feels it is his duty.
(c) He takes his fallen brother's place in the war.
(d) He does it to protect his family.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Phony act in order to survive at the Federal narcotics farm?

2. What does Major Otto ask Hodges when they meet in the commander's tent?

3. Chapter 3 Where is Hodges processed and briefed?

4. What does Cat Man believe he is meant to do?

5. Why doesn't Baby Cakes want Ogre with him?

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