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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Thirty-One, Night March, Chapter Thirty-Two, The Observation Post.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul Berlin plan to stop doing after the war is over?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Shaving.
(d) Smoking.

2. What does the boy in Chapter 31 do involuntarily from time to time?
(a) Fiddle with his rifle.
(b) Fart.
(c) Whistle.
(d) Do situps.

3. What finally breaks the unnerving calm at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Rudy Chassler trips a mine.
(b) The VC finally attacks the village.
(c) Cacciato and Stink Harris get in a fistfight.
(d) A new soldier shoots himself in the foot.

4. With what word does Paul Berlin describe Billy Boy Watkins' death in Chapter 32?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Blessing.
(c) Fact.
(d) Inevitability.

5. How does Stink Harris lose his hold on Cacciato in the brush?
(a) Cacciato is sweaty and slick.
(b) Cacciato punches him in the groin.
(c) Stink cannot get his arms all the way around Cacciato.
(d) Cacciato bites him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Third Squad get Lieutenant Corson out of Delhi in Chapter 26?

2. In Chapter 19, what does Paul Berlin realize is the true value of the Cacciato pursuit?

3. In Chapter 22, the author mentions that which man was never expected to survive the war and didn't?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 31, as Third Squad stops during the march, what does Paul Berlin do?

5. In Chapter 27, what assumption about himself does Paul Berlin acknowledge is true?

(see the answer key)

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