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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is O'Brien ill?
(a) A cold
(b) Bronchitis
(c) Pneumonia
(d) Cancer

2. What is the name of O'Brien's company?
(a) Alpha
(b) Beta
(c) Omega
(d) Zeta

3. Which of the following is the best definition for bellicose?
(a) Humiliating
(b) Flattering
(c) Belligerent
(d) Impatient

4. What does the battalion commander believe is O'Brien's problem?
(a) Afraid of dying
(b) Inadequate training
(c) Poor hygiene
(d) Moral struggle

5. Which of the following is the literary term for when O'Brien keeps adding elements from events which happened prior to those he is describing?
(a) Flashback
(b) Past Regression
(c) Irony
(d) Alliteration

6. What name do the soldiers give to the Starlight scope?
(a) Chump
(b) Barney
(c) Charlie
(d) Brandy

7. On which peninsula does chapter eleven occur?
(a) Malay
(b) My Lai
(c) Batangan
(d) Indochinese

8. Where do the members of Alpha Company go when faced with an incoming explosive ordinance?
(a) Into the forest
(b) Dive to the ground with no cover
(c) Foxhole
(d) Scatter into abandoned homes

9. Why can't O'Brien sleep?
(a) He is lost in the jungle
(b) Overwhelmed by the jungle
(c) Fear of being killed
(d) He is not allowed because he is always the guard

10. Which of the following best describes the weather during Chapter four?
(a) Wet and cold
(b) Extreme heat and dry
(c) Humid and dry
(d) Humid and Rainy

11. What seems to happen to the jungle as the soldiers stare at it into the darkness?
(a) Seems to grow
(b) Seems to swallow up their friends
(c) Seems to move
(d) Seems to be filled with animals

12. When does O'Brien execute his plan to desert infantry training?
(a) Thanksgiving break
(b) Spring break
(c) Summer break
(d) Christmas break

13. What is the goal of the soldiers in relation to the insurgents?
(a) Hid
(b) Surrender
(c) Elimination
(d) Capture

14. Who does O'Brien want to write like when he leaves Vietnam?
(a) Plato
(b) Waldo
(c) Emerson
(d) Hemingway

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most frightening mission for the soldiers?

2. What does the man offer to the soldiers?

3. Which of the following is a new piece of equipment the soldiers break out in Chapter Four?

4. What is the name of the lake which O'Brien likes to ride around?

5. What does O'Brien experience for the first time in chapter nine?

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