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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women of the camp spend their days doing?
(a) Sewing clothing for the soldiers
(b) Hunting for food
(c) Hiding in their huts
(d) Cleaning and cooking fish

2. Which of the following terms does not accurately describe Captain Smith?
(a) Inept
(b) Careless
(c) Brave
(d) Slovenly

3. Where does Alpha Company find a Viet Cong rifle?
(a) On a dead soldier
(b) Hut
(c) Mine field
(d) Well

4. Which of the following is the best definition of a scout?
(a) Inspector
(b) Scrutinizer
(c) Surveyor
(d) Reconnoiter

5. Which of the following terms means someone with very little combat experience?
(a) Red
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Blue

6. Which of the following is the best antonym to the term lewd?
(a) Rude
(b) Vulgar
(c) Refined
(d) Coarse

7. What does Captain Johansen tell O'Brien he would rather be than anything else?
(a) Brave
(b) Fearless
(c) Home
(d) Alive

8. For what event is Major Callicles asked to leave the base camp permanently?
(a) Drinking
(b) Burning down a brothel
(c) Harassing the soldiers
(d) Taking Drugs

9. 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) Taking a 3-day leave
(d) Eating

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

11. Courage without wisdom is what, according to O'Brien's interpretation of Plato?
(a) Unwise
(b) A sign of weakness
(c) Showing an inability to follow through
(d) Not true courage

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

13. What consumes Major Callicles?
(a) Prostitution
(b) Sense of right and fairness
(c) My Lai scandal
(d) Liberalism

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

15. What stands in the center of the refugee camp?
(a) Flag pole
(b) Mine field
(c) Hut
(d) Barbed wire

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a synonym for the term lament?

2. Which of the following is the best definition for the term paralyzing as used in the following sentence? They fight paralyzing fear with each step they take.

3. Which of the following best describes how O'Brien feels about Captain Johansen?

4. What new job does O'Brien finally earn at the end of August?

5. What do some of the soldiers give to the dying female Viet Cong soldier?

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