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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson?
(a) Lux threatens to fire Vinny Pearson if he keeps asking questions.
(b) Lux does not allow Vinny Pearson's distrustful questions.
(c) Lux gives Vinny Pearson freedom to ask John whatever he wants.
(d) Lux backs Vinny Pearson's aggressive questioning.

2. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?
(a) A soldier's foot was blown off.
(b) The men agreed to cover up the massacre.
(c) One of the soldiers killed a Vietnamese soldier.
(d) A soldier was ambushed and killed.

3. Where do the police look for Kathy?
(a) Where she went to college.
(b) In her hometown.
(c) Around the cabin.
(d) In nearby islands.

4. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?
(a) Killing Kathy.
(b) Admitting his crime in Vietnam.
(c) Kathy not being in bed.
(d) Pouring boiling water on himself.

5. What does Tony Carbo say in response to John's question?
(a) He says that John is finished in politics.
(b) He says that he had been recruited.
(c) He says he can still get John on the ballot for state representative.
(d) He says he is a pig and couldn't help himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is John in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

2. What does John omit from his letters to Kathy from Vietnam?

3. What does Paul Meadlo admit to when he is questioned?

4. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?

5. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?

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