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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing that Austin tells Hodges he won't tolerate?

2. Chapter 22 How many of Bagger's football team joined the Marines at the same time?

3. What does Snake tell Goodrich to keep his mouth shut about?

4. Why doesn't Hodges want to give food to the woman who asks for food for her child?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the villagers carrying as they approach Hodges and his men?

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

3. What does Major Otto tell Hodges about the bush?

4. What do Snake, Cannonball, Senator, Bagger, and Cat Man find when they go to look for the missing men?

5. Why does Cannonball decide to join the Marines instead of the Army?

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

7. What is the Black Shack used for?

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

9. What does Hodges consider unfair when he confronts the enemy in the village?

10. What does Bobby Hodges awaken to his first night in Vietnam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the attitudes of the people in America toward the soldiers fighting in the war and those who return from the war.

2) Use examples from the letters and comments of the men who return home for R&R or are discharged after serving in Vietnam.

3) How do the comments about the people back in the states affect the men's morale?

4) How do they feel emotionally when they hear the comments from home?

Essay Topic 2

Each of the characters presented in Hodges' unit had different reasons for enlisting in the Marines.

1) Summarize the reasons of at least four of the characters in the novel.

2) Compare the character's views when they enlisted to their attitudes toward the Marines once they are actually serving in Vietnam.

3) How does each of the characters lose their innocent view of their role in the war? Cite examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

1) Discuss how Goodrich grows as a character from the beginning of the novel to the end.

2) How do his attitudes change toward the Vietnam War?

3) How does his attitude about his classmates change?

4) What are the differences in his attitude toward war protesters from the beginning to the end of the novel?

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