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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Breakthrough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Stanley collapse from after the fighting at Okinawa?
(a) Shock.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dehydration.

2. What is so impressive to Sledge about Haldane?
(a) He is incredibly brave.
(b) His laugh is infectious and warm.
(c) He has remarkable concern for his men.
(d) He has the strength of ten men.

3. What chore at camp does Sledge hate the most?
(a) Detailing the latrine.
(b) Killing vermin.
(c) Hauling away rotting coconuts.
(d) Kitchen patrol.

4. What does Sledge have nightmares of while stationed at the final days of Okinawa?
(a) Seeing people he loves being killed at home.
(b) The U.S. losing.
(c) Firing at men who cannot die.
(d) The dead awaking and walking about.

5. What does Sledge see another Marine do to a wounded Japanese man with his Ka Bar?
(a) Extract his gold teeth while he is still alive.
(b) Urinate on his wounds.
(c) Slit his throat for fun.
(d) Take his family picture and cut it up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the men have to perform their own re-supply operations while fighting on Okinawa?

2. What is the focus of training at Camp Elliot?

3. Who does Sledge describe as "slightly Asiatic in thinking"?

4. How many men of the original 235 from Sledge's company left Peleliu unhurt?

5. What happens to most of the letters in the rain?

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