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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 does not kill him.
(c) He loosens the tourniquet so he bleeds to death
(d) He shoots him in the head with a pistol

2. What is Dave Jensen worried about?
(a) He will step on a booby trap
(b) Lee Strunk will shoot him
(c) Lee Strunk will retaliate
(d) The rest of the platoon will kill him

3. Who kills Tim Lavender's stray puppy with a Claymore?
(a) Rat Kiley
(b) Azar
(c) Curt Lemon
(d) Kiowa

4. What makes the men begin to believe in the good luck of Henry Dobbins' object?
(a) He kills the most number of enemies
(b) He never is picked for tunnel duty
(c) Women in the village blow him kisses
(d) He escapes certain death

5. How is Henry Dobbins described by the narrator?
(a) Weird man and stupid soldier
(b) Bad man and scared soldier
(c) Good man and superb soldier
(d) Great man and bad soldier

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

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

8. How does Jimmy ask Tim to portray him in the book he is writing?
(a) Brave and handsome
(b) Smart and crafty
(c) Heroic and courageous
(d) Mean and strict

9. In what year was the college reunion where Jimmy Cross reunited with Martha?
(a) 1949
(b) 1969
(c) 1989
(d) 1979

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

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

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

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

14. Who shares the story of the girlfriend in Vietnam?
(a) Rat Kiley
(b) Mitchell Sanders
(c) Dave Jensen
(d) Curt Lemon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Curt Lemon's bad experience in high school?

2. When was Ted Lavender killed outside of the village Than Khe?

3. What company are the men in?

4. What color are Martha's eyes?

5. What happened when Curt Lemon walked into the tent?

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