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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is the best definition for insurgent?
(a) An uprising
(b) A person who rebels against authority
(c) A soldier
(d) A person who revels in the pain of others

3. Which of the following is a term used to describe a hand grenade?
(a) Frog
(b) Short
(c) Thrower
(d) Frag

4. 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) Past Regression
(b) Flashback
(c) Irony
(d) Alliteration

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

6. Which of the following describes the nickname for the time period in which O'Brien was born?
(a) Baby boom
(b) Cold war
(c) Depression
(d) Holocaust

7. Which of the following is the best definition of insanity as used by O'Brien to describe some of his fellow soldiers in chapter four?
(a) Mentally Ill
(b) Psychotic
(c) Lunatics
(d) Mentally compromised

8. Which area is considered really dangerous?
(a) Long Binh
(b) Pinkville
(c) Batangan Peninsula
(d) Chu Lai

9. Why do the Vietnamese boys follow the soldiers?
(a) Watch and report to the Viet Cong
(b) Get candy
(c) To clean weapons
(d) Monitor locations

10. Which term best describes how O'Brien's basic training went?
(a) Time consuming
(b) Difficult
(c) Impossible
(d) Easy

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

12. Who warned Alpha Company of an incoming explosive ordinance?
(a) No one
(b) A Lieutenant
(c) O'Brien
(d) Enemy

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

14. Which word best describes the length of the meeting O'Brien has with the battalion commander?
(a) Adequate
(b) Brief
(c) Lengthy
(d) Extended

15. What does it mean to the members of Alpha Company to be getting short?
(a) 5-6 months left in Vietnam
(b) Out of ammunition
(c) Loss of a limb
(d) Injured but not incapacitated

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a synonym for the term raucous as it is used to describe the bus ride to basic training?

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

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

4. Which of the following does O'Brien use to describe the way Alpha company came out of the jungle?

5. Which of the following is true about O'Brien's parents?

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