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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22, Courage is a Certain Kind of Preserving.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does O'Brien describe the look in the girls' eyes who were selling Cokes?
(a) Barely concealed anger
(b) Pure infuriation
(c) Ongoing resentment
(d) Open antagonism

2. What does the man offer to the soldiers?
(a) Water
(b) Food
(c) Milk
(d) A place to sleep

3. What does O'Brien hide behind?
(a) Beer kegs
(b) Ammunition storage
(c) Other men from the company
(d) His tent

4. Which of the following is the best descriptor for the transition which O'Brien faces with daily life in Vietnam from his previous life?
(a) Denied
(b) Expected
(c) Abrupt
(d) Consistent

5. To which company is O'Brien first assigned?
(a) Gator
(b) Bravo
(c) Combat
(d) Alpha

Short Answer Questions

1. When is O'Brien due to report for basic training?

2. When does O'Brien execute his plan to desert infantry training?

3. Who warned Alpha Company of an incoming explosive ordinance?

4. Where did O'Brien meet a Vietnamese student who was also a Viet Cong officer?

5. When does O'Brien say that bitterness sets in for soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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