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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, The Man at the Well.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most frightening mission for the soldiers?
(a) Clearing underground tunnels
(b) Coming face-to-face with an insurgent
(c) Walking through the forest
(d) Searching empty villages

2. What does O'Brien experience for the first time in chapter nine?
(a) Gets lost in the jungle
(b) Killing his first man
(c) Ambush
(d) Bivouacked on a trail

3. Which term best describes how O'Brien's basic training went?
(a) Easy
(b) Time consuming
(c) Difficult
(d) Impossible

4. What is different about chapter ten than the others?
(a) It is the longest
(b) It shows the most compassion
(c) It is only one scene
(d) It was not written by O'Brien

5. What disability does the Vietnamese elderly man have?
(a) Deafness
(b) Missing a limb
(c) None
(d) Blindness

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the name of O'Brien's only friend during basic training?

2. Which of the following does O'Brien use to describe the way Alpha company came out of the jungle?

3. Which of the following best describes how O'Brien feels about the war?

4. Where is Alpha Company when O'Brien arrives?

5. Which of the following was not one of O'Brien's common high school activities?

(see the answer key)

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