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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lewis earn his first Purple Heart medal?
(a) A piece of shrapnel from a booby trap injures his hand.
(b) He is shot in the leg while trying to escape an ambush.
(c) He is shot in the hand by a Vietcong sniper.
(d) He is injured while dragging a member of his platoon to safety.

2. Why does Lewis become angry with the villagers his platoon is supposed to protect?
(a) They do not listen to his warnings about land mines.
(b) They refuse to help wounded American soldiers.
(c) They allow enemy snipers to take refuge in their villages.
(d) They try to sell their daughters to his platoon.

3. Why do Lieutenant Doan's men complain to Lewis in Chapter 4?
(a) Lewis' men are loud and obnoxious.
(b) They are not being treated fairly.
(c) Lewis's men have desecrated an enemy corpse.
(d) Their patrols are more dangerous.

4. What does the platoon discover one morning after camping on the sides of two hills in a V-shaped draw?
(a) A group of refugees hiding in caves.
(b) A cache of cigarettes and beer.
(c) A booby trap made from a discarded C-ration can.
(d) A dead Vietcong soldier in an American uniform.

5. What does Lewis see his father do for the first time the day he leaves home for war?
(a) Cry.
(b) Embrace Toddy.
(c) Salute him.
(d) Walk away.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what waiver is Lewis granted?

2. Why does the platoon carefully bury their garbage?

3. Where does Toddy plan to live while Lewis is fighting in the war?

4. Who is living with Martha in Chapter 2?

5. To what base is Lewis's father transferred in 1954?

(see the answer key)

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