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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kiowa's father do?
(a) Teach Sunday school
(b) Work as a mechanic
(c) Teach elementary school
(d) Work as a gardener

2. What was unique about the mission the men were given when Rat Kiley was injured?
(a) They had to work alone
(b) They had to keep talking nonstop as part of a ruse
(c) They had to walk at night and sleep during the day
(d) They had to crawl the entire way

3. How many soldiers are said to be in the platoon?
(a) 5
(b) 18
(c) 22
(d) 10

4. Who is the most "spooked" in the end?
(a) Bobby Jorgenson
(b) Tim
(c) Morty Phillips
(d) Azar

5. The man Tim killed had a hole the shape of what where an eye was supposed to be?
(a) A circle
(b) A heart
(c) A star
(d) A crescent moon

6. Who was the first person Tim grieved for their death?
(a) Kiowa
(b) The man he killed on the trail
(c) His grandfather
(d) Linda

7. Who do the platoon meet in the village?
(a) An old man
(b) An old woman
(c) A young boy
(d) A young girl

8. Where did Tim and Linda go on a date?
(a) To a baseball game
(b) To a movie
(c) To the park
(d) To a skating rink

9. What personal item did Tim "bury" in the river?
(a) Kiowa's moccasins
(b) Henry Dobbins' panty hose
(c) A picture of his old girlfriend
(d) Lt. Cross's pebble

10. What medal did Norman Bowker almost win?
(a) Purple Heart
(b) Silver Star
(c) Medal of Honor
(d) Gold Star

11. Why does Henry Dobbins think the girl is dancing?
(a) Because she wants to
(b) Because it is a ritual
(c) Because she wants the soldiers to like her
(d) Because she is nervous

12. What is the person they meet doing in the middle of a burned house?
(a) Crying
(b) Talking to the dead
(c) Dancing
(d) Eating

13. What landmark was Tim able to recognize in the field where Kiowa died, years later?
(a) The small area where Lt. Cross had set up command post
(b) The exact place where Kiowa was hit by a shell
(c) The landing area the men cleared for the chopper
(d) The place where his foxhole was

14. How did Rat Kiley tease Tim to keep him out of shock?
(a) He sang songs as he dressed the wound
(b) He made jokes about Tim dressing in drag
(c) He quoted from his medical manual in a pompous voice
(d) He pretended Tim had been pregnant

15. What was wrong with the village the men come upon in "Style?"
(a) It is deserted
(b) The villagers are all supporting the American cause
(c) All the villagers are sick
(d) It is mostly all burned

Short Answer Questions

1. Who mimics the girl's dancing later that night, making Henry Dobbins angry?

2. Which feeling does the narrator not admit to about the war?

3. What animal does Tim notice as he tries to process the death of the man he killed?

4. How could Kiowa be sure the man would have done harm to the platoon if Tim had not killed him?

5. What color clothes was the man wearing when Tim killed him?

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