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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. How does the narrator describe the killing at Thuan Yen?
(a) It went on for four hours.
(b) It was chaotic.
(c) It was premeditated and cold-blooded.
(d) It was over in a few minutes.

2. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?
(a) Whether he really means to stand by him.
(b) Who will he be working for.
(c) Couldn't he wait.
(d) What can be saved.

3. What was John's nickname in Vietnam?
(a) Senator.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Mister.
(d) Lucky.

4. What did one of the members of John's company have attached to his helmet?
(a) Condoms.
(b) Pistol rounds.
(c) A ponytail from a Vietnamese victim.
(d) Letters from home.

5. What does Paul Meadlo admit to when he is questioned?
(a) Shooting women and children.
(b) Taking trophies from dead bodies.
(c) Stealing from Vietnamese.
(d) Raping prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did PFC Thinbill tell John?

2. How does John describe his memory of the night of the boiling water?

3. What does Tony Carbo say John does not believe in?

4. What does the narrator say Kathy might have done in Chapter 22, "Hypothesis"?

5. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?

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