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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 way the men react to Rat Kiley's injury?
(a) Cheer him up about the hospitals in Japan
(b) Calling him a coward
(c) Give him comic books to read
(d) Offer to write it up as an accident

2. What did Kiowa's father do?
(a) Teach Sunday school
(b) Teach elementary school
(c) Work as a gardener
(d) Work as a mechanic

3. Where did Tim and Linda go on a date?
(a) To a movie
(b) To a baseball game
(c) To the park
(d) To a skating rink

4. What activity does Norman Bowker do to avoid his troubles?
(a) He drives around the lake
(b) He gets drunk
(c) He works a double shift
(d) He relaxes with his Dad and watches baseball

5. What does the author say about truth?
(a) Everyone has their own truth
(b) Story-truth is more real than happening-truth
(c) Truth is absolute
(d) Truth is unattainable

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes the decision to NOT alert Lt. Cross about finding the body?

2. Which is not a way the men coped with the night mission?

3. Who is the most upset by the act, and wants to know why the villager is behaving that way?

4. Who was the first person Tim grieved for their death?

5. Which soldier is killed in the swampy field, and subsequently stuck in the muck?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What power do stories have for people dealing with death?

4. What important information does the reader learn about the story in the preceding chapter?

5. What is Norman's assessment of his valor and bravery?

6. What does the dancing girl symbolize to you?

7. What is the main struggle for the narrator/author in the chapter "Good Form?"

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

9. How is Norma Bowker's life before the war and after the war contrasted?

10. Explain Tim's dilemma about how he killed a man on the trail outside My Khe.

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