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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is a characteristic of a "true war story?"
(a) There is no moral ending
(b) There is a lesson at the end
(c) It takes place during a battle
(d) Someone dies in it

2. Who began to tense up in the line waiting for an examination?
(a) Tim O'Brien
(b) Dave Jense
(c) Rat Kiley
(d) Curt Lemon

3. How does the sister respond to Rat Kiley's letter?
(a) She asks Rat to visit
(b) She never writes back
(c) She starts writing Rat love letters
(d) She thanks Rat for the letter

4. What is Dave Jensen's decision with regard to the pact he made with Lee Strunk?
(a) He promises to smother him in the hospital
(b) He loosens the tourniquet so he bleeds to death
(c) He shoots him in the head with a pistol
(d) He does not kill him.

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

6. Which limb does Lee Strunk lose?
(a) Left arm
(b) Right leg
(c) Right arm
(d) Left leg

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

8. What did Kiowa teach to Rat Kiley?
(a) How to skin a man
(b) How to read
(c) How to make moccasins
(d) A rain dance

9. How do we know the narrator is the author, Tim O'Brien?
(a) The narrator says he wants to write a story about all of this
(b) The narrator gives part of the royalties to Ted Lavender's family
(c) Jimmy Cross gives him money
(d) Rat Kiley asks Tim to write a book

10. Where do the men camp in the chapter titled "Church?"
(a) In a village with refugee clerics
(b) A pagoda
(c) Beneath a Hindu statue
(d) At a Christian mission

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

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

13. What does Dave Jensen do with the pistol?
(a) He gives it to Less Strunk as a peace offering
(b) He shoots down a bird
(c) He captures a Viet Cong
(d) He breaks his own nose

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

15. What game do Henry Dobbins and Norman Bowker play?
(a) Cards
(b) Rock, Paper, Scissors
(c) Checkers
(d) 20 Questions

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rat Kiley do to treat Lee Strunk's injury?

2. What profession did Henry Dobbins want to have in high school?

3. Where is the listening patrol positioned?

4. After his first episode with the dentist, what did Curt Lemon do?

5. Norman Bowker's father only cares about what?

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