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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creature did Marlantes have to kill after dogs had harried it?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Seagull.
(c) Hamster.
(d) Kitten.

2. What injuries did Marlantes suffer during the skirmish with the NVA teenager?
(a) Sharpnel in the back of the legs.
(b) Shrapnel in his face.
(c) Bullet in his calf.
(d) Bullet in his left foot.

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

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

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?
(a) 350.
(b) About a thousand.
(c) Only a couple hundred.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many jobs had Marlantes had between his attendance at the therapy group and his dinner with Joseph Campbell?

2. Who urged Marlantes to attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend.

3. In Chapter Four, how old was the volunteer who went with Marlantes to assess the platoon holding a key bridge?

4. In Chapter Four, how many men did Marlantes' take with him to assess how his platoon was doing?

5. What was the name of Marlantes' buddy who also shot at a teen NVA soldier with a grenade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did it take for Marlantes to realize that he had to quit fighting the shadows?

2. Describe the team that Marlantes took when he went to access the position of his platoon that was holding a bridge.

3. Why did Marlantes say that war is the antithesis of a fundamental rule of moral conduct?

4. What was the recurring nightmare that Marlantes first had?

5. What was a critical psychological issue about weapons technology?

6. Whose death did Marlantes particularly remember?

7. How was Marlantes' grandfather injured?

8. When was the first time that Marlantes felt any emotion about having killed?

9. Why did Marlantes believe that warriors needed to be spiritual people?

10. Describe Marlantes' grandmother and how she treated her children.

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