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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the private in Chapter Six who crawled over with Kool-Aid stains around his mouth?
(a) Martin.
(b) Schroeder.
(c) Risling.
(d) McIntrye.

2. How long was Marlantes' arrival home delayed because he contracted NSU?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 15 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. When did Marlantes attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

4. How many Spartans died defending Thermopylae?
(a) 142.
(b) 58.
(c) 250.
(d) 300.

5. How old was Maree Ann when Marlantes last saw her?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Six, how far were the scorekeepers from the lance corporal?

2. What military commander told reporters during Desert Storm that estimates of how many Iraqi soldiers were killed were meaningless?

3. How many years after Marlantes killed the young NVA soldier did he first feel any emotion about having killed during the war?

4. Where did Marlantes go when he first felt emotion about the killing he had done during the war?

5. Whose bow did the warrior Philoctetes carry?

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