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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the literary term for when O'Brien keeps adding elements from events which happened prior to those he is describing?
(a) Past Regression
(b) Alliteration
(c) Flashback
(d) Irony

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

3. What type of narration is this chapter?
(a) First Person
(b) Allegorical
(c) Biographical
(d) Third Person

4. What is located in Chu Lai?
(a) Combat Center
(b) Landing Strip
(c) Air warfare center
(d) Advanced training center

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of training does O'Brien have to go through after he leaves basic training?

2. Which of the following is different about the timing of chapter two as compared to chapter one?

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

4. Which of the following terms best describes they type of explosive attack which occurred in Chapter four?

5. From which area are the insurgents?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Brien spend his last summer before starting basic training?

2. Why does the smoke from Tri Binh 4 trouble O'Brien?

3. In what way do Erik and O'Brien catch the attention of the drill sergeant?

4. Describe Alpha Company as O'Brien first meets them.

5. The Starlight scope is what kind of technology?

6. What overwhelms O'Brien's opposition to the war?

7. How many scenes does the author use in chapter ten?

8. To whom does O'Brien write as he continues his plan to desert to Sweden?

9. Why does the Chaplain disappoint O'Brien?

10. What is O'Brien's moral dilemma?

(see the answer keys)

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