View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Postscript: China Beach—Khe Sanh.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the streets of Saigon full of?
(a) Dead soldiers
(b) Crime and trash
(c) Animals
(d) Prostitutes

2. What do most of the soldiers try to avoid in one way or another?
(a) Dreaming
(b) Getting shot at
(c) Going back to America
(d) Wearing their dog tags

3. What two emotions does Herr feel looking at pictures of dead people?
(a) Repulsion and fascination
(b) Fascination and Horror
(c) Shock and Repulsion
(d) Shock and fascination

4. Who does Herr tour a palace with?
(a) Major Trong
(b) Major Tonga
(c) Captain Trong
(d) Major Wong

5. When does Operation Pegasus begin?
(a) January 1
(b) March 31
(c) April 1
(d) August 1

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unspoken fear Herr does not mention?

2. What is the trick to survival?

3. What is the name of the relief operation at Khe Sanh?

4. When did Dien Bien Phu occur?

5. What does Herr say is the reason he came to Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 208 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample