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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which area is considered really dangerous?
(a) Pinkville
(b) Chu Lai
(c) Batangan Peninsula
(d) Long Binh
2. Who warned Alpha Company of an incoming explosive ordinance?
(a) Enemy
(b) O'Brien
(c) No one
(d) A Lieutenant
3. What is different about chapter ten than the others?
(a) It is the longest
(b) It is only one scene
(c) It shows the most compassion
(d) It was not written by O'Brien
4. What famous mountain was in the state and near where O'Brien completed his basic training?
(a) Mount Shasta
(b) St. Thomas
(c) Pike's Peak
(d) Mount Rainier
5. With what is O'Brien ill?
(a) Bronchitis
(b) A cold
(c) Cancer
(d) Pneumonia
6. What does it mean to get wasted to the members of Alpha Company?
(a) Die
(b) High from drugs
(c) Drunk
(d) Spend time with a prostitute
7. 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.
(a) Resigned
(b) Closely guarded
(c) Short hair cut
(d) Deprived of something
8. Who gives the soldiers of Alpha Company back rubs?
(a) Little boys
(b) Other soldiers
(c) Prostitutes
(d) No one
9. What type of notice does O'Brien receive?
(a) Deduction
(b) Induction
(c) Reduction
(d) Introduction
10. Which of the following does O'Brien use to describe the way Alpha company came out of the jungle?
(a) So silently that he missed their exit
(b) As if they were being chased
(c) Carefully and quietly
(d) Like mad men
11. What is the name of the base camp fro Alpha Company?
(a) Cam Ranh Bay
(b) Ho Chi Min
(c) Chu Lai
(d) LZ Gator
12. On which peninsula does chapter eleven occur?
(a) My Lai
(b) Malay
(c) Batangan
(d) Indochinese
13. Which of the following was one of O'Brien's common winter activities?
(a) Ice skating
(b) Bobsledding
(c) Tobogganing
(d) Sledding
14. Which of the following terms best describes how O'Brien feels during basic training?
(a) Lonely
(b) Fierce
(c) Supported
(d) Happy
15. Where is Alpha Company when O'Brien arrives?
(a) Gathering dead bodies
(b) On a mission
(c) Unaccounted for
(d) Having recreation time
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is not a synonym for spry?
2. Which of the following is a synonym for the term raucous as it is used to describe the bus ride to basic training?
3. What game do O'Brien and Captain Johansen play?
4. How does O'Brien describe the look in the girls' eyes who were selling Cokes?
5. What does O'Brien hide behind?
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