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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after the therapy-group experience, did Marlantes have dinner with Joseph Campbell?
(a) 7 years.
(b) About 8 years.
(c) About 5 years.
(d) 2 years.

2. What did Carl Jung call "the gook inside"?
(a) Demon.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Monster.
(d) Shadow.

3. In Chapter Eight, how close was Marlantes' company to Khe Sanh?
(a) 8 kilometers.
(b) 20 kilometers.
(c) 13 kilometers.
(d) 15 kilometers.

4. When did Marlantes join the Marine Corps?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Paris.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Madrid.

5. How far was Marlantes' hometown from his arrival airport when he flew back home?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 75 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Marlantes' grandfather's fishing boat?

2. In 1968, how many men served in the Marine Air Group that flew in and took out the injured?

3. How tall was "Canada"?

4. In Chapter Eight, how far did one kid have to jump when the helicopter pilot lost his nerve and gunned the copter out of the zone too soon?

5. Where did Marlantes participate in a white-heat atrocity?

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