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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 350.
(c) 500.
(d) Only a couple hundred.

2. After a night of drinking and drugs, what bridge would Marlantes watch undulate like a sine wave?
(a) Chesapeake Bay.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Arlington Memorial.
(d) Key.

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

4. How much did Marlantes' German shepherd weight?
(a) 87 pounds.
(b) 95 pounds.
(c) 63 pounds.
(d) 134 pounds.

5. What rank did Marlantes hold after Vietnam?
(a) General.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Lieutenant.

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

7. What emotion did Marlantes feel about the killing he did so many years ago?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Disgust.

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) Delhi.
(d) Achalpur.

9. How far was the bridge referenced in question 59 from Marlantes' company's position?
(a) 5 kilometers.
(b) 22 kilometers.
(c) 12 kilometers.
(d) 38 kilometers.

10. What did Marlantes say was the Irish equivalent of the Iliad?
(a) Tain Bo Cuailnge.
(b) Ulaid Cycle.
(c) Ulster Cycle.
(d) Lyra Celtica.

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

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

13. When was Zoomer injured?
(a) February 1969.
(b) January 1969.
(c) April 1968.
(d) March 1968.

14. How many jobs had Marlantes had between his attendance at the therapy group and his dinner with Joseph Campbell?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

15. What human form did the god in "Mahabharata" take?
(a) Charioteer.
(b) King.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What injuries did Marlantes suffer during the skirmish with the NVA teenager?

2. When was the Viking poem written that Marlantes quoted in Chapter Four?

3. What was Marlantes religious affiliation growing up?

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

5. Where was Zoomer injured?

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