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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Enemy Within.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people did Marlantes know were dead because of his behavior?
(a) 35.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 65.

2. How long was Marlantes' grandfather's fishing boat?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 40 feet.

3. When Marlantes was with his company in the high mountains that formed the Vietnamese border with Laos, what did he target for an air strike?
(a) A hospital.
(b) Elephants.
(c) An underground base.
(d) A village.

4. What was the name of Marlantes' buddy who also shot at a teen NVA soldier with a grenade?
(a) Carolina.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Tex.
(d) Alabama.

5. Later in Marlantes' military tour, after he'd been wounded twice, how many men were Marlantes' and his pilot supposed to rescue?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many decades did Marlantes have flashbacks from the war that affected him emotionally?

2. How big was the sturgeon that Marlantes and his grandfather caught in June, 1959?

3. In Chapter 4, what word did Marlantes use to describe the least acknowledged aspect of war?

4. When an teenage NVA soldier started to throw a grenade at Marlantes, how far from Marlantes was the hole he was standing in?

5. What was Joseph Campbell's ethnic background?

(see the answer key)

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