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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What profession did Henry Dobbins want to have in high school?
(a) A military officer
(b) A minister
(c) A travel writer
(d) A firefighter

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

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

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

8. What company are the men in?
(a) Alpha Company
(b) Charlie Company
(c) Bravo Company
(d) Delta Company

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

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

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

12. How does Lee Strunk first react after his injury?
(a) He passes out at the sight of blood
(b) Like he is dying
(c) Like he stubbed a toe
(d) He screams the pain is terrible

13. 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

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

15. After his first episode with the dentist, what did Curt Lemon do?
(a) Play a game of checkers
(b) Volunteer to go out on patrol
(c) Sit by himself under a tree
(d) Go for a swim

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie did Jimmy Cross and Martha see on their date before the war?

2. Who tells the war story about the listening patrol?

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

4. What happens to Mary Anne Bell in the end, according to Rat Kiley?

5. How did Tim protest the war?

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