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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do some of the soldiers give to the dying female Viet Cong soldier?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Nothing
(c) Water
(d) Kool-Aid

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

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

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

11. What does Alpha company come across in chapter twelve?
(a) Injured Viet Cong female soldier
(b) Previously unknown of beach
(c) Hidden mine field
(d) Safe place to rest for the night

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

13. Which emotion term best describes how the scout feels after leaving the Captain and being refused leave?
(a) Scoffed at
(b) Angry
(c) Resigned
(d) Determined

14. Which area of Vietnam is one of the most heavily mined areas?
(a) Redville
(b) My Khe
(c) Batangan Peninsula
(d) My Lai

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not an accurate description of guerrilla warfare?

3. How many times is the base attacked while O'Brien works there?

4. Which of the following terms does not accurately describe Captain Smith?

5. In what do the Viet Cong hide the booby-trapped grenades?

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