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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. Where do the people search for usable items?
(a) Surrounding fields.
(b) Refuse pails.
(c) Dump.
(d) Soldiers' tents.

2. One of the civilians is a teenager who is shot in the ____.
(a) Back.
(b) Leg.
(c) Shoulder.
(d) Head.

3. Who serves as the point man on the next patrol?
(a) Muto.
(b) Downs.
(c) Mann.
(d) Yoder.

4. Where is the Tam Ky province located?
(a) North Vietnam.
(b) West Vietnam.
(c) South Vietnam.
(d) East Vietnam.

5. Because Downs managed to capture _____ in the jungle he is given time off from the war.
(a) A suicide bomber.
(b) Mortars.
(c) A village.
(d) Vietcong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item seems to be most valuable to the people?

2. Who issues the order to let the men go?

3. The men are suddenly involved in a battle with how many Vietcong soldiers?

4. The troops are flown farther north near what large body of water?

5. Who returns to help with the mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sells sends Downs and his men on a foot patrol. Where does Sells send the men? What change has there been in personnel?

2. What incident takes place involving the seven civilians? What is the attitude of the soldiers on both sides?

3. Where are the American soldiers sent to next?

4. Discuss Downs' opinion of the base camp and area surrounding Pleiku.

5. Explain the scene in which the Alpha Company engages in a large scale battle.

6. How and why is Downs rewarded for his actions in the field?

7. How is the platoon separated? Who are the leaders? What happens shortly after the separation? What is Downs' reaction to the conflict?

8. The day after the conflict, there is another ambush. Who is ambushed? The recent events cause the men to have what realization? What is the reaction of the soldiers?

9. Where is the Tam Ky province? How is it similar to the old base camp outside Duc Pho?

10. What happens to the wounded men? What can the soldiers do to save them?

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