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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. What is Richie's sexual orientation?
(a) Homosexual.
(b) A-sexual.
(c) Hetrosexual.
(d) Bisexual.

2. Why does Richie believe the suicide attempt was made?
(a) To get out of the military.
(b) To really cause death.
(c) For attention.
(d) For a diagnosis of mental illness.

3. After lights out, why does Carlyle say he is crawling on the floor?
(a) He has gone mad and reverted to child-like behaviors.
(b) He has found a mouse and is following it home.
(c) He is pretending he is at war and crawling through rice paddies.
(d) Carlyle says he is practicing his duties: "the low crawl."

4. What does Roger claim will happen to Sarge (Rooney) within one year?
(a) He will be dishonorably discharged.
(b) He will die in action in the war.
(c) He will drink himself to death.
(d) He will blow himself up.

5. What is the one threat (as stated by the stage directions) that all of the men share?
(a) Losing a limb.
(b) Death.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) The war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bunks are on the stage at the opening of Act 1?

2. What kind of powder does Richie use for his rashes?

3. While recalling events from his hometown, what does Roger tell the others happened to the man in the phone booth?

4. What division of the Army have Rooney and Cokes been in together?

5. As Roger is finishing up the mopping, what do Cokes and Rooney carry into the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Carlyle tells Richie when they are alone in the bunk room that all he wants to do is talk, Richie does not believe him. What does Richie believe that Carlyle wants?

2. What is the significance of Billy shutting the door at the end of Act 2, Scene 1?

3. What is ironic about Carlyle's attire going into town?

4. As Billy, Roger and Richie are discussing going out, Richie calls going to a whorehouse "disgusting." Billy's replies to Richie with "look who's talking." What do both men mean?

5. Why does Richie think that Roger would understand the problems associated with being homosexual?

6. What does "standing tall" mean to the men in the bunk room?

7. What is the underlying fear that all of the men share? (Billy, Roger, Richie, and Carlyle)

8. Why does Carlyle speak in the third person when talking to Richie about his (Carlyle's) behavior the night he passed out on the bunk room floor?

9. Why does Billy say that he would rather face "freezin' cold" than snakes?

10. What does Richie mean by the "real Richie" is in Manhattan, and the other Richie is sitting in the Army reading a book?

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