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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Haywood chose when he goes home?

2. What type of torpedoes do the VC put down to blow the fence at the hospital where Luther works?

3. When Louis dies, how much time did he have before he would have gone home?

4. What street is Richard, his mother, and his wife driving on when white guys cut in front of them and blow the horn?

5. Where did Charles's family settle down?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do forty men in Bravo Company get killed by friendly fire?

2. Why couldn't Richard sleep the first night he was home?

3. How does Light Bulb lose a stripe and get a fine?

4. Why did Mr. Ku Klux Klan change his mind about blacks?

5. Why does Malik have to spend seven days in the brig?

6. During the attack on the hospital, what does Luther pray when he is under fire?

7. Describe the robbery that Haywood plans and executes.

8. Why don't officers want to be saluted at the front?

9. What types of things would Luther order for the Vietnamese?

10. How does Light Bulb get a man off a mine that he had stepped on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how fear affected the soldiers in Vietnam and when they returned home and how fear influenced their behavior. Use examples from "Bloods."

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the way that soldiers treated both military and civilian Vietnamese. Use examples from "Bloods."

Essay Topic 3

Argue whether the training that the soldiers received did or did not affect the way that they viewed and treated the Vietnamese. Use examples from the book to support your position.

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