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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 type of mine would detonate under vehicles?
(a) Bouncing Betty
(b) Booby-trapped mortar rounds
(c) M-14 anti-personnel mines
(d) Soviet TMB

2. Which of the following events takes place about one hour after the new commander takes charge of Alpha Company?
(a) A racial crime
(b) Men led into a mine field
(c) O'Brien gets a leave pass
(d) Thirty soldiers killed in one hour

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

4. What does the term fragged mean?
(a) Racist individual
(b) To give jobs to only whites
(c) Killed mysteriously in battle or by another soldier
(d) A white soldier who is promoted

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice seems to afford the soldiers some protection from nighttime Viet Cong attacks?

2. Where does O'Brien sleep?

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

4. In which part of her body had she been shot?

5. Which emotion term best describes how the scout feels after leaving the Captain and being refused leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Brien feel about himself?

2. What is the major difference between Captain Johansen and Mad Mark as O'Brien sees it?

3. What does O'Brien say ruins a man's psyche?

4. Why does Major Callicles try to humiliate O'Brien?

5. What happens to the old men after they are tied to the tree all night?

6. What event does O'Brien tell Erik he witnessed recently in the letter he sends him?

7. O'Brien seems to like to enjoy what type of reading?

8. How would you classify Major Callicles mental state?

9. Why is the white first sergeant fragged?

10. How does O'Brien feel about his new job?

(see the answer keys)

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