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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 do the Marines do with the bodies of Baby Cakes and Ogre?

2. Why does Goodrich decide to be in Bagger's team?

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

4. Chapter 4 What is the injury that Ogre sustains during enemy fire?

5. Why is Goodrich afraid to go to the flatlands?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the men tease Bagger when the song, "These Eyes" plays on the radio?

2. What is the Black Shack used for?

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

4. Why does Snake argue with Austin's order to send a platoon on the other side of the wire at the tree line for LP?

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

6. How does Angus Austin become wounded?

7. How do Senator's college friends find ways to avoid the draft?

8. Why is Bobby proud to enlist in the Marines?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Choose a character from the novel and discuss his role as a hero.

2) Sketch out ideas about heroism with regards to the thoughts and actions of the character.

3) Does the hero plan out his actions or act spontaneously? Use examples from the novel.

4) Is the hero realistic in his actions or does he seem superhuman? Defend the answer with examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Goodrich presents moral dilemmas to his comrades' behavior throughout the novel.

1) How do Goodrich and the other men in his unit respond differently to their plights?

2) Which characters are more realistic in their responses to the dangers that they face and the moral questions they deal with?

3) Cite examples from the novel where Goodrich was adverse to the actions of the other men in his unit.

4) Whose actions are more realistic considering the situations they face?

Essay Topic 3

1) What images does Webb use to describe the Killer Fields as the men cross through them?

2) How do these images have different meaning for different people?

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