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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. Who is the most "spooked" in the end?
(a) Tim
(b) Azar
(c) Bobby Jorgenson
(d) Morty Phillips

2. What source of light gave away the platoon's position?
(a) A cigarette
(b) A camera flash
(c) A flashlight
(d) A camp fire

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

4. Who do the platoon meet in the village?
(a) A young girl
(b) An old man
(c) An old woman
(d) A young boy

5. What is the person they meet doing in the middle of a burned house?
(a) Talking to the dead
(b) Eating
(c) Dancing
(d) Crying

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tim think would have happened if he ignored the man on the trail?

2. What question of Kathleen's does Tim have a hard time finding an answer to?

3. How does the narrator find relief from his feelings about the war?

4. What did Kiowa's father do?

5. Other than Kathleen and Tim, who else watched him get into the river?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Henry Dobbins and Azar disagree about the girl's motive to dance?

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

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

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

7. Contrast the two times Tim was shot.

8. Do you agree with Kiowa or Tim's point of view about the kill? Why?

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

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

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