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

2. Who gets into a fist fight?
(a) Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk
(b) Rat Kiley and Mitchell Sanders
(c) Lee Strunk and Mitchell Sanders
(d) Dave Jensen and Henry Dobbins

3. What is one thing Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk are NOT described as doing together?
(a) Play cards together
(b) Team up on ambushes
(c) Share a foxhole
(d) Take turns on night guard duty

4. What kind of wound qualified for a mercy kill?
(a) Loss of an arm
(b) Wheelchair wound
(c) Head wound
(d) Gangrene

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a war story NOT about?

2. What item owned by Dave Jensen is missing?

3. Which of the following is NOT a way the men resupplied the things they carried?

4. What company are the men in?

5. Where is the platoon at?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe Martha's "separate-but-together quality" her and Lieutenant Cross share? What does she send to represent this quality?

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

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

4. How does the narrator feel about the war in Vietnam?

5. Why do Jimmy Cross and Tim O'Brien stop drinking coffee, and what do they switch to?

6. How did things start when Mary Anne first arrived, and how did they change?

7. What is Henry's reaction to his girlfriend dumping him?

8. Who did you think was the victim as you read the chapter, and who did you think was the victim once you finished it? Why?

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

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

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