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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alpha Company looking for on their marches in chapter 17?
(a) Rifles
(b) Mines
(c) Viet Cong
(d) A place to rest

2. Where does O'Brien sleep?
(a) In his office
(b) In the barracks
(c) In a tent on the base
(d) In an apartment with Bates

3. Which of the following ways is not one of the ways O'Brien and Bates get through the holidays?
(a) Drinking
(b) Attending a strip tease
(c) Eating
(d) Taking a 3-day leave

4. How do the prisoners sleep?
(a) Tied to a tree
(b) In a make shift jail
(c) On the ground bound together by ropes
(d) They are forced to stay awake

5. Why does the Vietnamese scout want request leave?
(a) Help his family overcome an illness
(b) To earn money for his family
(c) To take care of his children after his wife was killed
(d) Join the Viet Cong

6. Which of the following physical signs of stress can be seen in Major Callicles?
(a) Heart attack
(b) Ongoing weight problem
(c) Bursting blood vessels on his face
(d) Migraine headaches

7. Which of the following is the best synonym for the term mocks as used in the following sentence? The Captain mocks his fear.
(a) Mimics
(b) Simulates
(c) Ridicules
(d) Fakes

8. Which of the following is O'Brien's boss at camp LZ Gator?
(a) Mad Mark
(b) Major Callicles
(c) Captain Johansen
(d) Captain Smith

9. Which of the following is the best synonym for treacherous as used in the following sentence? The coral reefs and sandy beaches are a treacherous paradise.
(a) Unfaithful
(b) Safe
(c) Underhanded
(d) Dangerous

10. When does O'Brien say that bitterness sets in for soldiers?
(a) Every time they face death
(b) After they have joined a unit
(c) When they see their first combat death
(d) Once they have returned safely home

11. Which of the following events takes place about one hour after the new commander takes charge of Alpha Company?
(a) Men led into a mine field
(b) O'Brien gets a leave pass
(c) A racial crime
(d) Thirty soldiers killed in one hour

12. In what do the Viet Cong hide the booby-trapped grenades?
(a) Leaves
(b) Tin cans
(c) Under thatched huts floors
(d) Trees

13. Which of the following describes how the female Viet Cong soldier died?
(a) With female hysterics
(b) She survives
(c) Calmly
(d) In extreme pain

14. How does O'Brien feel in chapter thirteen?
(a) Surprised
(b) Angry
(c) Excited
(d) Relieved

15. How do the soldiers take vengeance?
(a) Hiding in the jungle
(b) Setting fire to villages
(c) Setting up their own mine fields
(d) Raping any women

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the men of Alpha Company in disarray?

2. Which type of mine would detonate under vehicles?

3. Why is Pinkville referred to by this name?

4. Which of the following characters believes it is wrong to tie the old men to trees?

5. What does the term fragged mean?

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