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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cannonball's reaction to Homicide's comments about fighting a white man's war?
(a) Cannonball attacks his friend.
(b) Cannonball feels betrayed.
(c) Cannonball becomes furious.
(d) Cannonball agrees.

2. Why doesn't Baby Cakes want Ogre with him?
(a) Ogre can't be trusted.
(b) Ogre almost got him shot earlier.
(c) Ogre never shuts up.
(d) Ogre has annoying habits.

3. Who gives Gilliland a ride part of the way to meet his wife?
(a) An old buddy
(b) An anti-war activist
(c) A religious family
(d) An ex-Marine

4. Where do the men gather as the sun begins to fall?
(a) They gather in small clumps in four man holes.
(b) They gather in a jungle hut.
(c) They gather around a campfire.
(d) They gather in the Lieutenant's tent.

5. Chapter 1 What does Snake do when he encounters Smack-man?
(a) He kicks him furiously in the head.
(b) He buys dope from him.
(c) He threatens him with a knife.
(d) He sells dope to him.

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

7. Chapter 21 What is Snake's reaction at seeing Ogre and Baby Cakes again?
(a) He is annoyed.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is elated.
(d) He doesn't care.

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

9. What does Bagger do before he leaves for war?
(a) He spends the night alone, regretting his decision.
(b) He marries his pregnant girlfriend.
(c) He has a party with his buddies.
(d) He spends the night with his parents.

10. Chapter 5 What does Major Otto have on his arm that he received during his first tour of duty?
(a) A six inch, purple trough from a bone- shattering machine- gun bullet
(b) A Semper Fi tattoo
(c) A tattoo of his mother
(d) A tattoo of his girl friend

11. Why doesn't Hodges want to give food to the woman who asks for food for her child?
(a) Hodges says that the hungry child is better off dead.
(b) Hodges hates everyone in Vietnam.
(c) Hodges says that it will go to the VC.
(d) Hodges says that there isn't enough food to go around.

12. What is the extent of Vitelli's injuries?
(a) He is shot in the foot.
(b) He has shrapnel in the abdomen.
(c) He is shot in the neck.
(d) He has a lethal shot to the chest.

13. What does Cannonball need to help digest all the changes taking place in the black community?
(a) He needs his father's strict hand.
(b) He needs his mother's advice.
(c) He needs the Reverend's words every Sunday.
(d) He needs his fellow brother's defiant words.

14. Where is Bobby stationed while he awaits to leave for Vietnam?
(a) Okinawa
(b) Hiroshima
(c) North Carolina
(d) Virginia

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why does Sadler decide to dismantle the old bomb buried in the dirt?

3. What is the Reverend's view on racism?

4. What does Cat Man do after he quits school at sixteen?

5. What does Bagger realize after he goes home to his wife and child for some R&R?

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