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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. How long had the Third Marine Division and the North Vietnamese Army struggled?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 9 months.

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

3. In Chapter Four, how old was the volunteer who went with Marlantes to assess the platoon holding a key bridge?
(a) 24.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 31.

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) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

5. At the time that Marlantes wrote his book, how long had it been since he killed someone?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 40 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Marlantes participate in a white-heat atrocity?

2. Where did Marlantes fight an NVA soldier in Chapter Six?

3. When did Marlantes attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend?

4. In 1968, after securing the top of a mountain for a new artillery firebase, how many men did Marlantes have in his rifle platoon?

5. How long did this recurring nightmare haunt Marlantes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What type of atrocities did Jane Goodall witness?

3. In 1968 when Marlantes was in charge of an undermanned platoon, how did he and his men guide a helicopter team in to rescue the wounded?

4. What did Marlantes say about his spiritual condition in 1968?

5. How were soldiers regarded by the American people during World War II?

6. Describe Zoomer's injuries.

7. What were some of the toughest bombing assignments in the history of air warfare?

8. When Zoomer was struggling to breathe, what incident did Marlantes remember from his youth?

9. Why did Marlantes keep a picture of a girl from Mozambique on his file cabinet.

10. What side did Marlantes believe there was that men tried to deny?

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