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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads the march in chapter nine?
(a) Captain Johansen
(b) Mad Mark
(c) O'Brien
(d) Erik

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

3. What is located in Chu Lai?
(a) Combat Center
(b) Advanced training center
(c) Air warfare center
(d) Landing Strip

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

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

6. What is different about chapter ten than the others?
(a) It is only one scene
(b) It shows the most compassion
(c) It is the longest
(d) It was not written by O'Brien

7. Who gives the soldiers of Alpha Company back rubs?
(a) Little boys
(b) Prostitutes
(c) No one
(d) Other soldiers

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

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

10. In what way does O'Brien classify himself?
(a) Foot soldier
(b) Sober
(c) Teacher of war lessons
(d) War expert

11. What does O'Brien help Alpha company do the day after the nighttime attack?
(a) Surprise the Viet Cong
(b) Hunt for those that attacked them
(c) Gather the bodies of the dead
(d) Search for mines

12. Which of the following is not a synonym for spry?
(a) Slow
(b) Lively
(c) Alert
(d) Nimble

13. Which of the following does Erik read intently?
(a) Plato
(b) Emmerson
(c) Aristotle
(d) Lawrence

14. Where does O'Brien say is the only place that Alpha Companies friendships are deep?
(a) When someone is killed
(b) While on R&R
(c) While marching
(d) Foxholes

15. Which of the following terms best describes how O'Brien feels during basic training?
(a) Fierce
(b) Lonely
(c) Happy
(d) Supported

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men were in O'Brien's basic training unit?

2. What does the forest symbolize to O'Brien?

3. What is the name of O'Brien's company?

4. Which of the following best describes the weather during Chapter four?

5. In what branch of the military does O'Brien serve?

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