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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the time of the storm that Marlantes' endured on his grandfather's fishing boat, which was described in Chapter 2, how much were fisherman paid per pound for Sockeye salmon?
(a) 48 cents.
(b) 33 cents.
(c) 51 cents.
(d) 22 cents.

2. Which Kipling's poem did Marlantes say was not about gratitude, but attitude?
(a) Anchor Song.
(b) Boots.
(c) Cold Iron.
(d) Tommy.

3. How tall was "Canada"?
(a) 6 feet 2 inches.
(b) 5 feet 9 inches.
(c) 6 feet 4 inches.
(d) 5 ffeet 11 inches.,

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

5. Where did Marlantes participate in a white-heat atrocity?
(a) Mutter's Ridge.
(b) Key Lai Bridge.
(c) Mui La Ridge.
(d) Wyatt's Bridge.

6. What group of people ended up fighting for a government that was murdering millions in concentration camps?
(a) Serbs.
(b) Russians.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Germans.

7. What were Marlantes and his grandfather afraid had slammed into their net in 1959?
(a) Sturgeon.
(b) Sea Lion.
(c) Dolphin.
(d) Whale.

8. Where was Marlantes when he saw a little girl who had had her hands cut off to enhance her ability to beg?
(a) Calcutta.
(b) Agra.
(c) Achalpur.
(d) Delhi.

9. In Chapter Two, how old was Marlantes' when he endured a storm on his grandfather's fishing boat?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

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

11. In Chapter Three, from what book did Marlantes include a quote by T. E. Lawrence?
(a) Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
(b) The Mint.
(c) Revolt in the Desert.
(d) The Forest Giant.

12. When did Marlantes attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

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

14. Where had Marlantes traveled when he came home to find his son curled up with a photo of the two of them?
(a) Australia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Singapore.
(d) Indonesia.

15. Where was Zoomer injured?
(a) Head.
(b) Chest.
(c) Groin.
(d) Hip.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had the Third Marine Division and the North Vietnamese Army struggled?

2. How many years after the therapy-group experience, did Marlantes have dinner with Joseph Campbell?

3. Later in Marlantes' military tour, after he'd been wounded twice, how many men were Marlantes' and his pilot supposed to rescue?

4. What were the names of Marlantes' sons?

5. What type of plane did Marlantes' friend, who was an ex-Navy pilot, fly as a civilian?

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