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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 problem does Carlyle have with all of the officers in the Army?
(a) They all come from wealthy families.
(b) They are all white.
(c) They are all black.
(d) They all have college educations.

2. What character tries to slit his wrists in a suicide attempt?
(a) Billy.
(b) Martin.
(c) Richie.
(d) Carlyle.

3. According to the stage directions, what color are the shades that cover the lights?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

4. How does Richie finish the following statement: "cleanliness is ....."?
(a) Godliness.
(b) Nakedness.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Releasing.

5. As Cokes and Rooney are telling the men about their past, what do they say happened to O'Flannigan?
(a) He turned on his fellow soliders, and they pushed him out of a plane.
(b) He pulled the shoot release at 500 feet and died.
(c) During a jump gone bad, he broke both of his legs and the Army sent him home.
(d) He did not pack his shoot properly, and it did not deploy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people from Billy's platoon are going to Vietnam?

2. What does Roger claim will happen to Sarge (Rooney) within one year?

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

4. What is Rooney's nickname for Cokes?

5. As Billy and Roger contemplate Carlyle's enlistment into the Army, why does Billy claim Carlyle is in the Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carlyle get angry at Billy and Roger for keeping him and Richie apart?

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

3. Why does Richie make fun of Billy's vernacular?

4. Why does Carlyle call Roger a "Tom"?

5. What is ironic about Rooney being a demolitions expert?

6. What does Carlyle mean when talking about "the black man's problem"?

7. 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?

8. Explain the joke that Carlyle tells after Richie storms out of the bunk room because Carlyle accuses him of "kissing his joint."

9. Why is the fact that Roger smokes contradictory to his other behaviors?

10. Why does Richie agree with Billy in regard to saying that there is something wrong with Carlyle?

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