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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is not a benefit of being stationed in the area?
(a) White beaches
(b) Friendly villages
(c) Palm trees
(d) Communications to call home

2. What does Mitchell Sanders call 'Nam'?
(a) Heaven
(b) Garden of Eden
(c) Hell
(d) Garden of Evil

3. How does Lee Strunk think the doctors will treat the wound?
(a) They will amputate the rest of the leg
(b) They will give him a prosthetic
(c) They will cut his other leg to match
(d) They will sew it back on.

4. What does Dave Jensen ask Lee Strunk?
(a) Can he help him?
(b) Is everything square between them?
(c) Does he have any morphine?
(d) Can he have a cigarette?

5. "Hump it" means what?
(a) To carry something
(b) Stay in formation
(c) Dig a foxhole
(d) Shoot at the enemy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Martha a student?

2. What does Dave Jensen do when he snaps?

3. What does Lee Strunk confess to Tim O'Brien in the morning?

4. In what year was the college reunion where Jimmy Cross reunited with Martha?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the men like checkers?

2. How does Lee Strunk react to his injury?

3. What are Henry Dobbins' tentative plans for after the war?

4. What happens to make the platoon believe in the good luck provided by the pantyhose?

5. Give a description of boredom as used in the novel.

6. What would you guess happened during the war that Jimmy asked Tim to leave out of his book?

7. How did Tim see Curt Lemon's personality?

8. Who was Elroy Berdahl and what is his significance to the narrator?

9. Why does Rat Kiley write a letter to Curt Lemon's sister, and what does the letter contain?

10. How does Lieutenant Cross resolve his responsibility in Ted Lavender's death?

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