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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Martha a student?
(a) Madison State University
(b) Princeton University
(c) Mount Sebastian College
(d) New Jersey College

2. What color are Martha's eyes?
(a) Green
(b) Brown
(c) Gray
(d) Blue

3. What does Dave Jensen borrow?
(a) A cigarette
(b) A shovel
(c) A pistol
(d) A bar of chocolate

4. What do the men call plane rides home to America?
(a) Freedom birds
(b) Liberty lifts
(c) Chopper catch
(d) Home runs

5. What animal does the platoon run into after Curt Lemon's death?
(a) Baby deer
(b) Baby water buffalo
(c) Baby snake
(d) Baby goat

6. How long did Alpha Company camp at the pagoda?
(a) About a week
(b) About a month
(c) 3 days
(d) 1 night

7. Before going out on ambush patrol, what does Henry Dobbins wrap around his neck?
(a) A woman's scarf he stole from a village
(b) His girlfriend's pantyhose
(c) A necklace his mother gave him
(d) His sister's scarf

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

9. What does Dave Jensen ask Lee Strunk?
(a) Can he have a cigarette?
(b) Can he help him?
(c) Does he have any morphine?
(d) Is everything square between them?

10. How old is Tim O'Brien when he wrote the book?
(a) 21
(b) 55
(c) 62
(d) 43

11. When Kiowa says "No choice, Tim. What else could you do?" what can we assume he is talking about?
(a) Tim's girlfriend wrote a letter to say she was seeing someone else
(b) Tim running away
(c) Tim forgot to warn the platoon about a land mine he saw
(d) A man Tim killed

12. What is a war story NOT about?
(a) Peole who never listen
(b) Teaching a lesson
(c) Love and memory
(d) Sorrow

13. On what occasion does Rat Kiley write a letter to a man's sister?
(a) The man was captured
(b) The man was promoted
(c) The man is coming home safely
(d) The man died

14. Which man cut off the thumb of a dead Viet-Cong boy?
(a) Rat Kiley
(b) Norman Bowker
(c) Kiowa
(d) Mitchell Sanders

15. What did Lt. Cross keep under his tongue?
(a) A pebble
(b) A bullet
(c) A piece of candy
(d) A grain of rice

Short Answer Questions

1. What purpose does the chapter 'Love' fill for the novel?

2. Who is unlucky to draw tunnel duty during the mission outside Than Khe?

3. Where do the men camp in the chapter titled "Church?"

4. What are Tim's duties at the pig factory?

5. What does Rat Kiley do first to the baby water buffalo?

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