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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ardell do while helping Pavlo get dressed after his suicide attempt?
(a) Yells at him to wake up.
(b) Tells the other trainees to vacate the barrack.
(c) Whistles a marching tune.
(d) Sings a marching song.

2. After Pavlo is dressed after his suicide attempt, what does Ardell say that everyone is going to say about Pavlo?
(a) That Pavlo looks great.
(b) That people will laugh at Pavlo forever.
(c) That Pavlo will never be forgotten.
(d) That he is brave.

3. How in the barracks during the conversation about Pavlo joining infantry did Pavlo claim his mother would react?
(a) Be hugely excited.
(b) Start to cry in frustration.
(c) Be embarrassed.
(d) Divorce his father.

4. Who is Pavlo drunkenly talking to in the opening scene?
(a) A repairman.
(b) A bartender.
(c) A janitor.
(d) A Vietnamese barmaid/prostitute.

5. What is happening in the barracks when Ardell first appears to find Pavlo near death?
(a) The trainees are making fun of Pavlo.
(b) Kress is making fun of Pavlo.
(c) Pavlo is fighting with Kress.
(d) The trainees are getting Pavlo to stand up.

6. Who does Pierce say he is worried about while he is drunk talking with Pavlo?
(a) Kress.
(b) Ardell.
(c) Pavlo.
(d) Parker.

7. What is Pavlo's punishment for supposedly masturbating instead of practicing drill?
(a) Reporting to Tower at 4am each morning.
(b) Cleaning the bathrooms for a month.
(c) Not getting breakfast for a week.
(d) Doing drill and going on a cross country hike.

8. Who brings the test results to the soldiers?
(a) Pierce.
(b) Ardell.
(c) Towers.
(d) The corporal.

9. What is Pierce doing when Pavlo first meets him?
(a) Studying.
(b) Doing push-ups.
(c) Jogging.
(d) Swimming.

10. What was Pavlo's reason to Pierce for telling stories in the furnace room?
(a) Kress and Parker were picking on him
(b) Kress asked him to tell.
(c) Parker asked him to tell.
(d) He gets so bored he has to tell stories.

11. What does Pavlo do after weapons drill that nobody else does?
(a) Jumping jacks.
(b) Push-ups.
(c) Pull-ups.
(d) Sit-ups.

12. What does Pierce urge Pavlo to do in response to the people tormenting him?
(a) To make friends with them.
(b) To quit the army.
(c) To announce his problem in the barracks.
(d) To fight back.

13. Where and when does this story take place?
(a) During The Holocaust in 1940.
(b) During the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
(c) During the maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912.
(d) During Apartheid in the 1930s.

14. What does Hinkle realize Pavlo has done to himself while the other trainees are playing their game?
(a) Sniffed airplane glue and taken a whole bottle of aspirin.
(b) Snifffed airplane glue and slashed his wrist.
(c) Slashed his wrist and taken a whole bottle of aspirin.
(d) Taken a bottle of sleeping pills and slashed his arm.

15. What do the trainees accuse Pavlo of when he arrives in the barracks ,
(a) Stealing their money.
(b) Wanting to go MIA.
(c) Skipping drill.
(d) Telling on them for drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Towers now name or call each trainee from Act 1 on?

2. What does Pavlo tell Pierce his name really is?

3. What does Pavlo do when Tower tells him not to ask questions like his first?

4. According to the Corporal, what were the two Vietnamese in his story wearing, although asking for help?

5. What two words does Ardell claim will be of meaning to all people after this event?

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