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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one thing Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk are NOT described as doing together?
(a) Play cards together
(b) Team up on ambushes
(c) Share a foxhole
(d) Take turns on night guard duty

3. What changed in late August between Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?
(a) Dave Jensen is hit by sniper fire
(b) They made a death pact
(c) Lee Strunk stepped on a rigged mortar
(d) Dave Jensen stole Lee Strunk's jackknife back

4. Who was excused from tunnel duty due to size?
(a) Henry Dobbins
(b) Ted Lavender
(c) Rat Kiley
(d) Lee Strunk

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

6. What object is Mitchell Sanders described with each time he is talking?
(a) A coin he flips
(b) A cigarette lighter
(c) A deck of cards
(d) A yo-yo

7. What does Elroy do to tempt Tim to run away?
(a) He speaks out against the war
(b) He gives Tim a contact to call in Canada
(c) He promises to lead Tim into Canada
(d) He takes Tim fishing right by the border

8. How did the jackknife incident change the relationship between Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk?
(a) The avoided each other
(b) They trusted each other
(c) They instantly became best friends
(d) They hated each other

9. How did Jimmy Cross get another photograph of Martha?
(a) She gave it to him at a college reunion
(b) He actually saved one from burning in Vietnam
(c) Martha died, and he cut it out of the newspaper
(d) Martha's mother mailed him one after he came home

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

11. Who tells the war story about the listening patrol?
(a) Dave Jensen
(b) Tim O'Brien
(c) Mitchell Sanders
(d) Rat Kiley

12. Where is the platoon at?
(a) Landing Zone Gator
(b) Than Khe
(c) My Khe
(d) Home in the United States

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

14. How did Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk agree on the pact?
(a) They became blood brothers
(b) They wrote it on paper and signed it
(c) The spit shook on it
(d) They asked Lt. Cross to witness it

15. Why is Kiowa against camping at the pagoda?
(a) Because the monks won't let an Indian sleep inside their walls
(b) Because the enemy took all the valuable supplies
(c) Because it isn't strategic
(d) Because it is disrespectful to religion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he call the object around his neck?

2. How does Tim join the army?

3. Which is not a benefit of being stationed in the area?

4. What word does Ted Lavender use to describe the war?

5. What makes the men begin to believe in the good luck of Henry Dobbins' object?

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