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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carlyle ask Richie if he is?
(a) A funny.
(b) A "homo."
(c) A punk.
(d) A "Jim."

2. How does Richie try to get Carlyle to leave the room peacefully after Carlyle accuses him of being rude?
(a) Richie tries to kiss Carlyle.
(b) Richie is not peaceful; he is blunt and tells Carlyle to leave.
(c) Richie goes over to Carlyle and holds his hand while walking him out.
(d) Richie claims Carlyle must have some very important business to attend to.

3. Richie enters the bunk room as Carlyle and Billy are discussing him. What does Richie state about Carlyle?
(a) That Carlyle is ignorant.
(b) That Carlyle has not come down out of the trees yet.
(c) That Carlyle is trouble.
(d) That Carlyle is a closet homosexual.

4. What plans about the trip does Richie find disgusting?
(a) Going to a whorehouse.
(b) Finding a male prostitute.
(c) Going to a sex shop.
(d) Going to a peep show.

5. Why does Carlyle think that Billy, Richie, and Roger share such a nice room?
(a) Because they are all to go to Vietnam together.
(b) Because they all enlisted at the same time.
(c) Because they are all gay.
(d) Because they all share the same duty job.

6. When Roger tells Richie that he and Billy are exercising, Richie says, "everyone has their own little pet name for it." What is Richie referring to?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Flirting.
(c) Sex.
(d) Mopping the floor.

7. As Carlyle is leaving the room, he calls Richie a punk. What does Richie call Carlyle?
(a) A dog.
(b) A pussycat.
(c) A pig.
(d) An animal.

8. What is the only book that Richie tries to read during the play?
(a) Pauline Kael's, "I Lost it at the Movies."
(b) Jo & Meg's, "Comic Tragedies."
(c) Lewis Carroll's, "Behind the Looking Glass."
(d) William Faulkner's, "The Sound and the Fury."

9. After calling Richie "Eddie," what does Richie say his friends call him?
(a) Mary.
(b) Irene.
(c) Jack.
(d) Bob.

10. What comment does Billy make about the waitress that makes Roger laugh at him?
(a) Billy says she likes him.
(b) Billy thinks she would make a good mother.
(c) Billy thinks she likes Roger.
(d) Billy says the black-haired waitress is smart.

11. According to Carlyle, what is the Army all about?
(a) Dying.
(b) Duties.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Killing.

12. What does Roger say will help Billy become tougher?
(a) Becoming an S.P.
(b) Becoming a bouncer.
(c) Learning a "fall-away" jumper.
(d) Boxing.

13. What does Carlyle blame his bad behavior on?
(a) Carlyle states that he was placed on the DL.
(b) Carlyle says he is drunk.
(c) Carlyle says he is restless and bored.
(d) Carlyle says he just received his papers.

14. When talking to Billy out "quality of talent," what is Carlyle referring to in regard to Richie and other men in the unit?
(a) If Billy thinks Richie likes Carlyle.
(b) If there are any other gays in the unit.
(c) If Billy has slept with Richie or anyone else in the unit.
(d) If Richie has "turned" anyone else in the unit gay.

15. News regarding Martin has come in. Where is Martin going?
(a) The Army is putting him in a mental hospital.
(b) The Army is sending him home.
(c) The Army is transferring him to another unit.
(d) The Army is sending him to Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Richie make for closing the bunk room door?

2. During the discussion about Frankie, Billy tells Richie that there is a new theory regarding homosexuality. What is the new theory?

3. Richie comes in while Billy and Roger are working out. How does Richie make fun of them?

4. As the others are leaving for town, what does Richie claim Billy is scared to death of?

5. What does Roger take out of his locker to put on before leaving the base?

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