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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 did Kiowa's father do?
(a) Teach Sunday school
(b) Work as a gardener
(c) Teach elementary school
(d) Work as a mechanic
2. What color clothes was the man wearing when Tim killed him?
(a) Camouflage
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Green
3. What personal item did Tim "bury" in the river?
(a) A picture of his old girlfriend
(b) Lt. Cross's pebble
(c) Henry Dobbins' panty hose
(d) Kiowa's moccasins
4. What member of the platoon attempts to comfort Tim after he kills a man?
(a) Kiowa
(b) Rat Kiley
(c) Azar
(d) Lt. Cross
5. 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 ignore him because they all thought he died
(c) They greet him and treat him as if nothing happened
(d) They treat him politely and ask him for favors
Short Answer Questions
1. Which is not a way the men coped with the night mission?
2. How many years has it been since the war for the author, at the time of writing the novel?
3. By what area of the body does Norman Bowker attempt to pull the body out of the muck?
4. How does Rat Kiley deal with the mission at first?
5. Who does Rat Kiley accuse of whispering his name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Contrast the two times Tim was shot.
2. Explain who feels blame for Kiowa's death.
3. What is unique about the movements required of Alpha Company for this chapter's mission?
4. How is Norma Bowker's life before the war and after the war contrasted?
5. What two types of truth are there for the author and reader?
6. What important information does the reader learn about the story in the preceding chapter?
7. Explain Tim's dilemma about how he killed a man on the trail outside My Khe.
8. What happens to Tim after he kills the man in the path with a grenade?
9. What does Tim invent about the man he killed?
10. How do Henry Dobbins and Azar disagree about the girl's motive to dance?
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