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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. How did Kerry distort shooting himself in the buttocks in order to receive his third purple heart?
(a) He claimed he was captured by the enemy and forced to sit on a mine.
(b) He claimed he was shot by the enemy.
(c) He claimed it was an accident caused by the intense pressures of an enemy battle.
(d) He claimed it was friendly fire.

2. What did Kerry have a high regard for, according to those who served with him?
(a) His fellow officers.
(b) His exaggerated stories.
(c) His personal accountability.
(d) His own well being.

3. What was Cavett's reputation as a commentator?
(a) Rude.
(b) Unfair and biased.
(c) Clueless.
(d) Fair and objective.

4. What was the primary role of skimmers?
(a) To take the soldiers away from the battles.
(b) To watch the waters for the enemy.
(c) To engage in key battles.
(d) To watch for civilian curfew violators and issue tickets.

5. How often did the charges Kerry reported supposedly occur?
(a) He lost count.
(b) Once or twice a month.
(c) Daily.
(d) Once a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long were both O'Neill and Kerry both relatively quiet?

2. How was Kerry's first wound treated?

3. What does Kerry admit to about his decision to be part of the Swift Boats during Vietnam, in The Vietnam Experience: A War Remembered?

4. What did the author of Kerry's Boston Globe biography write about Kerry's reason for joining the Swift Boats?

5. After the villagers fled the Song Bo Do river village in 1969, what did Kerry order his crew to destroy while he lit fires with a Zippo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the conversation between Kerry and the Captain of an LST en route to An Thoi, and why do the authors dispute it?

2. What does Captain Plumly report about Kerry's service, and how does that correspond to the reports of his trips to Saigon?

3. What were the circumstances around the award of Kerry's second Purple Heart, and how does it parallel the first?

4. What question did Lt. Ted Peck ask of Kerry shortly after he returned home, and why is Kerry's response revealing?

5. How did one of Kerry's suggestions affect the Swiftees when they were ordered to employ Psychological Operations against the enemy?

6. What is the significance of O'Neill's suggestion that the readers of the book view the video of the debate between him and Kerry?

7. How did the debate between O'Neill and Kerry begin, and what was the outcome?

8. How was Kerry awarded the third Purple Heart, and why was it significant?

9. How did the assignment of the Swift Boats change, what was Kerry's response, and why did the other officers consider him to be a problem?

10. What were Kerry's reasons for choosing the Swift Boats to serve on?

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