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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. Where does Alpha Company find a Viet Cong rifle?
(a) On a dead soldier
(b) Well
(c) Mine field
(d) Hut

2. Which of the following was not one of O'Brien's common high school activities?
(a) Performing in plays
(b) Dates at drive-in movies
(c) Dances
(d) Pep rallies

3. Which time of day is filled with the most potential danger according to O'Brien?
(a) Morning
(b) Dusk
(c) Afternoon
(d) Night

4. Which of the following is a synonym for the term raucous as it is used to describe the bus ride to basic training?
(a) Guttural
(b) Boisterous
(c) Soft
(d) Rough

5. What stands in the center of the refugee camp?
(a) Barbed wire
(b) Flag pole
(c) Hut
(d) Mine field

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following events takes place about one hour after the new commander takes charge of Alpha Company?

2. Which of the following was one of O'Brien's common winter activities?

3. Which of the following is the best definition of the term shorn as used in the following sentence? Everyone is sober, shaven and shorn after raising their hands and reciting an oath.

4. What do the soldiers decide to do when they discover a tunnel in a village rather than sending a soldier down?

5. What does it mean to get wasted to the members of Alpha Company?

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