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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 Tim trying to save with a story?
(a) Linda's memory
(b) Kathleen's education
(c) All of his war buddies' lives
(d) His own life

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

3. Who does Tim blame for his near-death experience?
(a) Bobby Jorgenson
(b) Rat Kiley
(c) Mitchell Sanders
(d) Morty Phillips

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the mission the men were given when Rat Kiley was injured?

2. Who do the platoon meet in the village?

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

4. What was the young man trying to show Kiowa before "the whole field blew up around them?"

5. How old was Tim when he first dealt with death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the visit to the battlefield where Kiowa was killed?

2. Explain who feels blame for Kiowa's death.

3. How does Tim react to Bobby Jorgenson's failings as a medic?

4. How did the men recover Kiowa's body?

5. Contrast the two times Tim was shot.

6. What does Tim invent about the man he killed?

7. What is unique about the movements required of Alpha Company for this chapter's mission?

8. What was Tim's first experience with death?

9. Who does Tim go on a trip with and where do they go?

10. How does Rat Kiley cope with the difficult mission of up all night, and sleeping during the day?

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