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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 far was Marlantes' hometown from his arrival airport when he flew back home?
(a) 75 miles.
(b) 100 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

2. Whose bow did the warrior Philoctetes carry?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Ares.
(d) Apollo.

3. In Chapter Eight, for what place had two squads been filling sandbags?
(a) Headquarters.
(b) Medical hospital.
(c) Base Camp Blue.
(d) Task Force Hotel.

4. In Chapter Eight, what was the name of the missing kid who helped in the assault that Marlantes and the others made up the hill?
(a) Niemi.
(b) Manning.
(c) Pops.
(d) Buck.

5. What was the occupation of the adult Scout leader who dropped Marlantes and his fellow Scouts for survival training?
(a) Mechanic.
(b) Timber cruiser.
(c) Production worker.
(d) Printer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of PFC Nelson's friend who died at the beginning of Chapter Six?

3. What types of trees covered the ridges where Marlantes and his fellow Scouts did their survival training?

4. How many Spartans died defending Thermopylae?

5. Where was Marlantes headed in 1967 when he heard President Johnson give a speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Marlantes get Utter down the hill?

2. What was the meaning of the battlefield myth that the enemy tied wire around themselves so they wouldn't bleed so fast?

3. How did the gunner Prairie Dog get his nickname?

4. What did Marlantes' father do during World War II?

5. Describe the conditions for Marlantes' company at the beginning of Chapter Eight.

6. When did Marlantes' father start to talk about his war experiences?

7. What did Niemi do and why when a helicopter went down?

8. When Marlantes learned that superior officers hated to chew him out because of all his medals, what did he do?

9. How did Marlantes' first wife feel about his book, "What is it Like to Go to War"?

10. How could an individual in the military of a Western democracy have had freedom to disobey orders?

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