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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. Where is Lee Strunk when Dave Jensen shows his broken nose?
(a) In the hospital
(b) His foxhole
(c) Playing cards with other men
(d) Around the fire

2. What is another name for a land mine?
(a) Toe Popper
(b) Kaboom
(c) Last Step
(d) Sizzling Sally

3. Where does Tim consider running to?
(a) Canada
(b) Mexico
(c) England
(d) France

4. How did Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk agree on the pact?
(a) The spit shook on it
(b) They asked Lt. Cross to witness it
(c) They became blood brothers
(d) They wrote it on paper and signed it

5. How did Tim protest the war?
(a) Participating in a parade
(b) Organizing sit ins at his college
(c) Setting the recruiting station on fire
(d) Ringing doorbells for McCarthy

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a war story NOT about?

2. Who are the men order to see?

3. Where does Jimmy Cross stay while he visits Tim?

4. How does Lee Strunk think the doctors will treat the wound?

5. What changed in late August between Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do the men like checkers?

4. What was Martha's response to Jimmy's confession about wanting to hold her knee?

5. Why did the men have to see the dentist?

6. What was the story for Mitchell Sander's moral of "Nobody listens?"

7. Explain your thoughts on this quote: "I was a coward. I went to war."

8. Explain why you think Dave Jensen is so upset someone stole from him.

9. What does Dave Jensen do to make himself square with Lee Strunk?

10. Explain how the rhyme "Step out of line, hit a mine; follow the dink, you're in the pink." changed meanings?

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