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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mitchell Sanders sent what in his letter to the Ohio Draft Board?
(a) Body lice
(b) A dead boy's thumb
(c) Photographs
(d) Letters home

2. Who did the monks take a special liking to and call "Soldier Jesus?"
(a) The narrator
(b) Lt. Cross
(c) Kiowa
(d) Henry Dobbins

3. How did Tim protest the war?
(a) Ringing doorbells for McCarthy
(b) Setting the recruiting station on fire
(c) Organizing sit ins at his college
(d) Participating in a parade

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

5. Who does Azar give a chocolate bar to?
(a) A pretty girl he sees
(b) A kid with a puppy
(c) A boy with one leg
(d) A man in the platoon who is about to die

6. What does Mary Anne like to do when she disappears from the medical unit?
(a) Go visit in the villages with other women
(b) Go see her secret Viet Cong lover
(c) Go out on patrols with the Green Berets
(d) Go swimming by herself

7. What did he do that night after he fainted in the dentist tent?
(a) He went nuts and shot his gun in the air
(b) He woke the dentist up and told him a tooth hurt
(c) He attacked the dentist while he slept
(d) He ran out into the jungle and never came back

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

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

10. Which men have a conversation when they see Lt. Cross crying after Ted Lavender's death?
(a) Norman Bowker and Henry Dobbins
(b) Rat Kiley and Kiowa
(c) Mitchell Sanders and Dave Jensen
(d) Kiowa and Norman Bowker

11. Who is the sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong?
(a) Sally Kramer
(b) Mary Anne Bell
(c) Martha
(d) Kathleen

12. What is Jimmy Cross's last request to Tim at the end chapter 2?
(a) To make sure he is buried at home
(b) To help him find a job
(c) To not mention something in his book
(d) To take care of Martha for him

13. If you follow the dink, you stay in the _____________.
(a) rink
(b) sink
(c) stink
(d) pink

14. Who is unlucky to draw tunnel duty during the mission outside Than Khe?
(a) Mitchell Sanders
(b) Ted Lavender
(c) Lee Strunk
(d) Henry Dobbins

15. How does Tim join the army?
(a) Joining an officer's trainging program
(b) The draft
(c) To get out of going to jail
(d) Signing up with a recruiter

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jimmy Cross get another photograph of Martha?

2. What is another name for a land mine?

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

4. What animal does the platoon run into after Curt Lemon's death?

5. Where is Martha a student?

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