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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 Marlantes killed the young NVA soldier did he first feel any emotion about having killed during the war?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

2. Who said, "I am by nature warlike"?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Avenarius.
(d) Eberhard.

3. In 1968 when Marlantes was left in charge of an undermanned platoon, how long did he and his men sleep at a time?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

4. How old was the black machine gunner named Prairie Dog?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 20.

5. In Chapter Seven, how long had it been since the skipper of Marlantes' unit had been at his fraternity house?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Marlantes' great-grandmother's occupation?

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

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

4. Which Kipling's poem did Marlantes say was not about gratitude, but attitude?

5. After a night of drinking and drugs, what bridge would Marlantes watch undulate like a sine wave?

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