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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Three Asylum on the Road to Paris, Chapter Twenty-Four, Calling Home, Chapter Twenty-Five, The Way It Mostly Was.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 14, why is Frenchie Tucker about to leave the front when he is shot?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) His tour is up.
(c) Scheduled leave.
(d) A gangrenous wound.

3. How does Cacciato escape while Paul Berlin is passed out?
(a) By bicycle.
(b) By train.
(c) By car.
(d) By rickshaw.

4. In Chapter 8, who is supposed to relieve Paul Berlin of his post?
(a) Oscar Johnson.
(b) Stink Harris.
(c) Eddie Lazzutti.
(d) Doc Peret.

5. Which of the following characters does not go the MARS system to call home in Chapter 24?
(a) Doc Peret.
(b) Oscar Johnson.
(c) Eddie Lazzutti
(d) Sidney Martin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impeding event occurs as the Third Squad crosses the river into Laos?

2. In Chapter 25, why is the mountain road particularly bad for a march?

3. Which of the following items is not among those that Li Van Hgoc serves to Third Squad in Chapter 13?

4. Which of the following men votes to in Chapter 3 to turn back?

5. While practicing in a fake minefield in Chapter 4, how do new soldiers know that have tripped a "mine?"

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