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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 happens by mistake on Peleliu that causes Sledge to hate the waste and cruelty of war?
(a) A marine sets off a of grenade next to an ammunition tent.
(b) A marine steps on a land mine.
(c) A marine trips over a wounded soldier and breaks his leg.
(d) A marine kills another wounded marine.

2. What is the name of the ridge on Peleliu that was under almost constant barrage of artillery?
(a) Broken Neck Ridge.
(b) Caualty Capital Ridge.
(c) Bloody Nose Ridge.
(d) Heart Attack Ridge.

3. What is a "million dollar wound"?
(a) A wound caused in a Japanese sniper.
(b) A fatal wound.
(c) A wound that is not bad enough to stop their fighting.
(d) A wound that gets you out of the combat zone without being killed.

4. What is the weather like on the day of the assault on Peleliu?
(a) Breezy and cool.
(b) Freezing.
(c) Extremely windy.
(d) Unbearably hot.

5. Why are there mountains of bodies and feces?
(a) There is not time between the fighting.
(b) They want to bring the bodies home if possible.
(c) It is a form of defense.
(d) The terrain is too rough to bury them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different from Bailey and the other officers at Sledge's non-combat location?

2. What does Sledge see a man doing to a dead Japanese machine gunner after taking the pillbox?

3. What stops the shooting from the Japanese in the pillbox?

4. How does Sledge's company celebrate Christmas while they are away from combat?

5. What did Sledge's instructors promise that they would need to know to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sledge's platoon react to the death of Haldane?

2. What is so annoying to Sledge and his platoon about Mac?

3. Why is Sledge so nervous when he ships out from Guadalcanal?

4. What is Sledge doing when he is startled by his feelings of peace during a time of war?

5. What do the Japanese soldiers do at night while Sledge is stationed in Peleliu?

6. What does Caswell ask Sledge to not do even though many other soldiers are doing it?

7. Why was the President Polk such an uncomfortable ship?

8. What does Sledge do as he and Shelton have to cross a highly unprotected air-strip on Peleliu?

9. How does Sledge feel about life on Pavuvu?

10. What does Sledge do on Christmas Eve while in boot camp?

(see the answer keys)

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