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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 are the streets of Saigon full of?
2. What phrase is used even though most soldiers don't mean it?
3. Where does Saigon look beautiful?
4. When does Herr finally take up a weapon?
5. What two kinds of drugs do the soldiers turn to?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the actions of the correspondents while in the field.
2. How does the chapter's title reflect the feelings of the soldiers and differ from the upper brass's description of the war?
3. Herr talks with a black Marine about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. What impact does the assassination have on the black soldiers in Vietnam?
4. How does the Vietnam War impact more than just the country of Vietnam?
5. Describe the reaction Herr has to seeing dead bodies and how the soldiers react when they kill the enemy.
6. Khe Sanh is compared to another battle fought nearly ten years earlier. What is the name of that battle and what happened?
7. Describe the types of reporters working in Vietnam and the reports that are sent back to the American public.
8. Describe Herr's first encounter with the Marines and how that affects Herr.
9. Discuss the soldier who has already served three tours in Vietnam and wants to re-enlist for a fourth.
10. Why do soldiers take body part trophies? Does drug use play a role in this practice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Major Trong does not tell Herr who the last emperor of Vietnam was but states that he is the new emperor. How does his statement affect Herr and the war? What do you make of Trong's refusal to answer Herr's question? Do you think Trong's statement is one based on truth or on greed for power?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Page. What type of man is he? How does he act? Why do the Marines view Page as the real enemy?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the various reactions of soldiers and correspondents to the mountains of death they encounter each day. Why do some soldiers react with arousal while others are repulsed? How do the soldiers learn to cope with what they are ordered to do and what happens to them? How do students suppose that the soldiers overcome what they witness or perform during the war? Discuss the increase instances of post-traumatic stress disorder and how the American people reacted to veterans with flashbacks?
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