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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Part I Colleagues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which magazine is Karsten Prager associated?
(a) Life
(b) Newsweek
(c) Time
(d) Esquire

2. What sights upset Day Tripper?
(a) Wounded
(b) Piles of dead Vietnamese
(c) Mayhew losing a leg
(d) The NVA soldiers hanging on the wire fence

3. Where are the Americans best at fighting?
(a) In the ground cover
(b) In Saigon
(c) In the Air
(d) On land

4. Why do the men hear continuous machine gun fire at night?
(a) An NVA is stuck on the wire around the base
(b) A water buffalo ran into the gun and knocked it down
(c) An American soldier went crazy and is spraying the base
(d) They are suffering dreams from smoking marijuana

5. Herr encounters a soldier with a bag full of what?
(a) Buffalo patties
(b) Dog tags
(c) Marijuana
(d) Dried human ears

Short Answer Questions

1. What two correspondents spend about a month with Herr?

2. When does the Tet Offensive begin?

3. What does one veteran correspondent say is the most useful thing to know in Vietnam?

4. Who do Prager and Herr meet with?

5. What is a TAOR?

(see the answer key)

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