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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who makes snide comments about the Chaplain who is leading a memorial service for the fallen men?
(a) Senator, Snake, and Flaky
(b) Snake, Cat Man, and Flaky
(c) Senator, Cat Man, and Flaky
(d) Senator, Bagger, and Ottenburger

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

4. What is the worst enemy abuse that Goodrich remembers seeing?
(a) A Vietnamese soldier is shot in the knee and thrown in the water.
(b) Food is taken away from a Vietnamese woman and child
(c) Two Vietnamese soldiers, scorched from head to foot and blinded, come to the camp to surrender.
(d) Two Vietnamese soldiers thrown into a pit of bodies

5. Chapter 16 Where do black men go to talk about racism and an unjust world?
(a) The chapel
(b) In the trenches
(c) The Black Shack
(d) The commander's tent

6. Chapter 3 Where is Hodges processed and briefed?
(a) Okinawa
(b) Da Nang
(c) An Hoa
(d) Hiroshima

7. Why is Goodrich afraid to go to the flatlands?
(a) He is afraid of deadly insects in the tall grass.
(b) He is afraid of snakes in the elephant grass.
(c) He is afraid of anything new.
(d) He has heard stories that a man can step on an ambusher before he sees him.

8. 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 fellow brother's defiant words.
(c) He needs his mother's advice.
(d) He needs the Reverend's words every Sunday.

9. Which member of Snake's platoon loses his leg?
(a) Baby Cakes
(b) Kerlovic
(c) Flaky
(d) Corky

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

11. What does Snake do when he sees the new recruits?
(a) He gives them some hot stew.
(b) He introduces them to everyone.
(c) He gives them nicknames.
(d) He salutes them.

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

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

14. Why does Snake argue with Austin about the LP duty assignment?
(a) Almost all of Snake's men are injured and need to recover.
(b) Snake's men just had duty and are tired.
(c) Snake likes to argue with Austin about everything.
(d) Snake's men will not be able to get back over the wire if attacked.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Austin as he dives to the ground to check on the bunkers?

2. Chapter 17 Why does a new trench hole have to be dug by the Marines rather than their using an old trench hole?

3. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?

4. Chapter 12 What kind of a childhood did Phony have?

5. Where is Bobby stationed while he awaits to leave for Vietnam?

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