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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event causes Tim to revise "Speaking of Courage," following Norman Bowker's advice?
(a) The death of Lt. Cross
(b) A letter from Kiowa's father
(c) Norman Boker's suicide
(d) Feedback from his daughter

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

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

4. What was the young man trying to show Kiowa before "the whole field blew up around them?"
(a) A medal for bravery
(b) A passage in the Bible
(c) A picture of his girlfriend
(d) A postcard from home

5. Who does Tim take with him on his trip to Vietnam?
(a) His daughter
(b) His wife
(c) His son
(d) His father

6. Which soldier is killed in the swampy field, and subsequently stuck in the muck?
(a) Rat Kiley
(b) Henry Dobbins
(c) Ted Lavender
(d) Kiowa

7. Who does Rat Kiley accuse of whispering his name?
(a) The trees
(b) The other men in the platoon
(c) The villagers
(d) The bugs

8. In Tim's imagination, what village is the man he killed from?
(a) Tra Bong
(b) Than Khe
(c) Saigon
(d) My Khe

9. What part of the story is Tim's own?
(a) The friend drowning part
(b) The Silver Star part
(c) The part of playing basketball at the YMCA
(d) The part of pulling Kiowa by his boot

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

11. What almost killed Tim?
(a) A shot to the shoulder
(b) An improperly dressed wound
(c) A partial land mine detonation
(d) A knife wound from town

12. How do the men in the platoon treat Tim when they run into him at the supply command?
(a) They treat him distantly, because he isn't one of them anymore
(b) They treat him politely and ask him for favors
(c) They greet him and treat him as if nothing happened
(d) They ignore him because they all thought he died

13. What activity does Norman Bowker do to avoid his troubles?
(a) He gets drunk
(b) He works a double shift
(c) He drives around the lake
(d) He relaxes with his Dad and watches baseball

14. How does Rat Kiley ensure a ticket home?
(a) He punches Lt. Cross in the face
(b) He shoots himself in the foot
(c) He starts acting crazy and imitating animals
(d) He runs away and deserts the platoon

15. Who warns Lt. Cross about the location the men choose to camp in?
(a) A group of other soldiers
(b) The command post
(c) A group of Vietnamese children
(d) A group of Vietnamese women

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT a way the men react to Rat Kiley's injury?

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

3. Who is the most upset by the act, and wants to know why the villager is behaving that way?

4. What is the person they meet doing in the middle of a burned house?

5. Who makes the decision to NOT alert Lt. Cross about finding the body?

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