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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Relating to Mars.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Viking poem written that Marlantes quoted in Chapter Four?
(a) 7th century.
(b) 5th century.
(c) 10th century.
(d) 8th century.

2. Where did Marlantes fight an NVA soldier in Chapter Six?
(a) Near a river.
(b) Inside a bunker.
(c) In a bramble patch.
(d) Inside a hospital.

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

4. How old was von Luck when he joined the German Army?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

5. Who wrote "The True Believer."
(a) Eric Hoffer.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was Marlantes philosophy tutor at Oxford?

3. What was the name of the Spartan commander who died defending Thermopylae?

4. How long was Marlantes' arrival home delayed because he contracted NSU?

5. 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?

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