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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 does Richie tell Kenny in the letter he writes about the Vietcong soldier?
(a) Richie is unable to write his brother a letter.
(b) That the soldier deserved to die because he attacked Richie first.
(c) That the soldier deserved to die for being communist.
(d) That the soldier deserved to die because he was a "bad guy."

2. After the trauma of visiting the recently pacified Vietnamese village, whose bed does Richie sleep in for comfort?
(a) Peewee's.
(b) Lobel's.
(c) Monaco's.
(d) Ring's.

3. At the end of the fight over land in Vietnam, what is dropped by jet plane into the clearing?
(a) Paragliding soldiers.
(b) Food rations.
(c) Mustard gas.
(d) Napalm.

4. What offer does Gearhart give the soldiers to keep them safe?
(a) To choose their next leader or leave it up to the administration.
(b) To use machine guns or grenades.
(c) To travel to southern or northern Vietnam.
(d) To split up or stay together.

5. Who is loaded onto the helicopter with Richie after he has been shot?
(a) Sergeant Simpson.
(b) Lieutenant Doyle.
(c) Peewee.
(d) Brew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the character sent in to replace Sergeant Simpson?

2. Who does Richie feel certain is the good guy in the Vietnam war.

3. What is the name of the soldier's new base, that they are moved to under Lieutenant Gearhart's command?

4. What does Richie do when Brew is dying?

5. What happens when the soldiers realize that the war will not be ending anytime soon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What offer does Gearhart make for the troops, when it is realized that the squads are unequally staffed?

2. What do the American soldiers see when they return to the village in Vietnam that they had recently tried to pacify?

3. What happens when the allies bring in a Vietnamese mother and her two small children found wandering around the rice paddies?

4. What happens when the Vietnamese allies want the American troops to help them capture a crucial hill?

5. Why do the rescue choppers open fire on the Vietnamese allies?

6. What does Richie do with his Purple Heart?

7. What is the reaction among the troops when the newspaper arrives with photos of war protesters burning their draft cards?

8. In Kenny's letter to Richie about Johnny Robinson, what does he say?

9. How does Richie explain the shooting of the Vietcong soldier to his brother, Kenny?

10. How do the American soldiers prepare the bodies of their fallen soldiers so that the enemy cannot mutilate them?

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