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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. From which area are the insurgents?
(a) North Vietnam
(b) South Vietnam
(c) China
(d) Korea

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

3. How does O'Brien describe the look in the girls' eyes who were selling Cokes?
(a) Ongoing resentment
(b) Barely concealed anger
(c) Open antagonism
(d) Pure infuriation

4. Which of the following is true about O'Brien's parents?
(a) They both protested the war
(b) They were both veterans
(c) They were both currently in the military
(d) They both died when O'Brien was very young

5. Which of the following best describes the weather during Chapter four?
(a) Wet and cold
(b) Humid and dry
(c) Extreme heat and dry
(d) Humid and Rainy

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following characters often spends time telling jokes?

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

4. Which of the following best describes what O'Brien is afraid of?

5. Which of the following was not one of O'Brien's common high school activities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes fear and paranoia in the soldiers?

3. What does O'Brien do on his long nocturnal walks?

4. What are the soldiers constantly fighting to find?

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

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

7. What provides O'Brien with his only intellectual connection?

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

9. After he starts his interest in politics, what does O'Brien begin to do?

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

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