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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How large was the net that Marlantes' grandfather used to fish with?
(a) 1,200 feet.
(b) 3 football fields in length.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 4 football fields in length.

2. After Marlantes had been in Vietnam about a year and was assigned to be an air observer, how many feet off the ground did the observation plane fly?
(a) About a thousand.
(b) 500.
(c) Only a couple hundred.
(d) 350.

3. In Chapter Four, how did Marlantes get to the bridge that his platoon was holding?
(a) Tank.
(b) Jeep.
(c) Hummer.
(d) Helicopter.

4. What was the name of the Lance Corporal Marlantes mentioned at the beginning of Chapter Six?
(a) Smithers.
(b) Wyatt.
(c) Williams.
(d) Smothers.

5. Where did Marlantes go when he first felt emotion about the killing he had done during the war?
(a) A meadow.
(b) The woods.
(c) Church.
(d) His room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who urged Marlantes to attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend.

2. What was Joseph Campbell's ethnic background?

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

4. Whose bow did the warrior Philoctetes carry?

5. How old was the black machine gunner named Prairie Dog?

(see the answer key)

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