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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following was not an accurate description, according to O'Brien, of the men who make up Alpha company?
(a) Lost all manners
(b) Lost all sense of proper human interpersonal communication
(c) Bizarre
(d) Curse wildly

3. Which of the following characters often spends time telling jokes?
(a) Charlie
(b) Mike
(c) Barney
(d) O'Brien

4. What is the name of the lake which O'Brien likes to ride around?
(a) Tanganyika
(b) Nasser
(c) Okabena
(d) Nyasa

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

6. What does the term ingratiate mean?
(a) Curry favor
(b) Despise
(c) Respond to
(d) Move away from

7. How many attempts does O'Brien make to work through the military hierarchy for guidance and counsel?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 5
(d) 3

8. Which of the following is the best definition of the term lethargy?
(a) Sluggishness
(b) Indolence
(c) Laziness
(d) Weariness

9. 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) Deprived of something
(d) Short hair cut

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

11. In which state was O'Brien raised?
(a) Mississippi
(b) Minnesota
(c) Maryland
(d) Michigan

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

13. What is O'Brien's job with Alpha Company?
(a) Simply foot soldier
(b) Medic
(c) Sniper
(d) Operating the radio

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does O'Brien request a meeting?

2. What is the name of the base camp fro Alpha Company?

3. Which of the following terms best describes they type of explosive attack which occurred in Chapter four?

4. What type of training does O'Brien have to go through after he leaves basic training?

5. Which best describes how the soldiers feel about minor shrapnel injuries?

(see the answer keys)

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