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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 13 What is a sign that the enemy is near?
(a) The birds begin to screech.
(b) The smell of human sweat is in the air.
(c) The water bulls disappear from the fields
(d) The fields are silent.

2. Chapter 7 Who does a great job digging and engineering two holes that Hodges notices?
(a) Senator
(b) Snake
(c) Flaky
(d) The Vietnamese enemy

3. What does Cannonball need to help digest all the changes taking place in the black community?
(a) He needs his father's strict hand.
(b) He needs his fellow brother's defiant words.
(c) He needs the Reverend's words every Sunday.
(d) He needs his mother's advice.

4. What does Dan give a mamasan to give to her children?
(a) A wooden car he whittled
(b) A chocolate bar
(c) Three cans of C-ration meat
(d) A can of fruit

5. What is the Reverend's view on racism?
(a) Defy the white man whenever possible.
(b) The human race is the only race.
(c) Blacks are better than whites.
(d) Be subservient to the white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 20 Where is Gilliland meeting his wife on his last day as a Marine?

2. What does Roland learn after he is in the military?

3. How does Goodrich feel after his tirade about Hodges?

4. Why are the villagers told they have to keep walking even after Hodges says that he will transport them to the resettlement village in a Medevac?

5. How does Goodrich pour out the agony he has felt for months?

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