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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does Tim graduate college?
(a) 1948
(b) 1958
(c) 1968
(d) 1988

2. Because he is a coward, what does Tim do?
(a) He goes to war
(b) He runs away
(c) He joins the Peace Corps
(d) He hurts himself

3. In what year was the college reunion where Jimmy Cross reunited with Martha?
(a) 1989
(b) 1979
(c) 1969
(d) 1949

4. How is Lee Strunk medically treated?
(a) Rat Kiley give him bandages
(b) He refuses medical treatment
(c) He is choppered back
(d) Village women help fix him

5. What does Mitchell Sanders call 'Nam'?
(a) Hell
(b) Garden of Eden
(c) Garden of Evil
(d) Heaven

Short Answer Questions

1. "If you weren't humping, you were __________."

2. Mitchell Sanders sent what in his letter to the Ohio Draft Board?

3. What does Lee Strunk confess to Tim O'Brien in the morning?

4. According to the narrator, what is a characteristic of a "true war story?"

5. What does Dave Jensen do with the pistol?

(see the answer key)

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