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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bizarre
(c) Curse wildly
(d) Lost all sense of proper human interpersonal communication

2. Which of the following is the name of O'Brien's only friend during basic training?
(a) Charlie
(b) Compton
(c) Erik
(d) Blyton

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

4. What does the forest symbolize to O'Brien?
(a) Disgust
(b) Fear
(c) Inability to be reassured
(d) Anger

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

6. What does O'Brien develop an interest in during high school?
(a) Acting
(b) War methods and techniques
(c) Service to his country
(d) Politics

7. Which of the following best describes how O'Brien feels about the war?
(a) It is right
(b) It is too far away
(c) It is wrong
(d) It needs to end quickly

8. In what year does chapter three take place?
(a) 1970
(b) 1960
(c) 1968
(d) 1955

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

10. Which of the following does O'Brien use to describe the way Alpha company came out of the jungle?
(a) Carefully and quietly
(b) So silently that he missed their exit
(c) Like mad men
(d) As if they were being chased

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

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

13. From which area are the insurgents?
(a) China
(b) North Vietnam
(c) South Vietnam
(d) Korea

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

15. How do the soldiers feel about the jungle?
(a) Ambivalent
(b) Reassured
(c) Fearful
(d) Stupefied

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term ingratiate mean?

2. What does O'Brien learn about his military future at the beginning of chapter six?

3. Which of the following does O'Brien begin reading?

4. What type of narration is this chapter?

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

(see the answer keys)

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