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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the name Cannonball's mother is known as back home?
(a) Drunk Lady Washington
(b) Crazy Lady Washington
(c) Junk Lady Washington
(d) Fat Lady Washington

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the Army have on Cannonball's brother?

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

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

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

5. Chapter 15 Why does Dan leave his family to fight in the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gilliland reach Pismo Beach to meet his wife after being discharged from the Marines?

2. What unreasonable expectations does Angus Austin expect from the men?

3. Why do the men always dig new fighting holes, rather than use old holes that they find?

4. What is Goodrich's reaction as the platoon walks through Go Noi Island?

5. What does Gilliland tell Hodges about the attitude of the civilians back in the States?

6. How does Angus Austin become wounded?

7. Why does Snake give Goodrich the nickname, Senator?

8. Why does Goodrich want to join Bagger's team?

9. What is the result of the investigation of the banana trees just off the trail that Hodges' men are following?

10. Who is wounded during enemy fire in An Hoa?

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