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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much are the refugees paid for each death?
(a) $5.98
(b) $100.35
(c) $33.90
(d) $20

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

4. What does Major Callicles feel is infecting the US military?
(a) Liberalism
(b) Prostitution
(c) Rebellion
(d) Conservatism

5. What practice seems to afford the soldiers some protection from nighttime Viet Cong attacks?
(a) Stealing Viet Cong rifles
(b) Taking prisoners
(c) Destroying property
(d) Hiding in wells

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

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

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

9. What does the letters AWOL stand for?
(a) Away While on Leave
(b) Absent Without Leave
(c) Absent While on Leave
(d) Away Without Leave

10. 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.
(a) Deprive somebody of voluntary movement
(b) Make somebody temporarily unable to move
(c) Bring to a standstill
(d) Inability to move and think

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

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

13. To what does O'Brien liken Johansen's leaving Alpha Company?
(a) Vietnam War
(b) Overthrow of a king
(c) President Kennedy's assassination
(d) Trojans losing Hector

14. What happens to Alpha Company as they are half way across the marsh?
(a) Surrounded by peasants revolting against their treatment
(b) Run into a mine field
(c) They hit a Viet Cong soldier with their armored vehicles
(d) Hit by rocket-propelled grenades

15. Pinkville used to be a what?
(a) Population center
(b) Wasteland
(c) Cemetery
(d) Popular beach

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alpha Company looking for on their marches in chapter 17?

2. What does Alpha company come across in chapter twelve?

3. Which of the following is the best synonym for the term mocks as used in the following sentence? The Captain mocks his fear.

4. Where does O'Brien sleep?

5. What does the term fragged mean?

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