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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Speedy offer to give Senator when he says that he wants to resign from the Marines?
(a) Some extra money for travelling home
(b) A medal to bring home to his wife
(c) A letter of recommendation
(d) A grenade to kill himself with

2. What does Roland learn after he is in the military?
(a) The black men in the military are hate machines.
(b) Buddies protect buddies in the military.
(c) Everyone is on equal standing in the military.
(d) There is no white or black in the military.

3. What is the name Cannonball's mother is known as back home?
(a) Fat Lady Washington
(b) Crazy Lady Washington
(c) Junk Lady Washington
(d) Drunk Lady Washington

4. What happens to Austin as he dives to the ground to check on the bunkers?
(a) Austin's foot is blown off.
(b) Phony launches a grenade near Austin.
(c) Austin breaks his arm in the fall.
(d) Austin is hit by enemy fire.

5. Chapter 3 Where is Hodges processed and briefed?
(a) Okinawa
(b) Da Nang
(c) Hiroshima
(d) An Hoa

6. What does Cat Man believe he is meant to do?
(a) Go back to school
(b) Live a life of crime
(c) Move back to his native country
(d) Join the Marines

7. What is Goodrich's strength as he sits contemplating after the battle?
(a) The ghosts of his past
(b) The men in his unit
(c) Memories of his girlfriend
(d) His happy memories of home

8. Chapter 20 Where is Gilliland meeting his wife on his last day as a Marine?
(a) Da Nang
(b) Quantico, VA
(c) Pismo Beach
(d) South Carolina

9. Chapter 5 What does Major Otto have on his arm that he received during his first tour of duty?
(a) A six inch, purple trough from a bone- shattering machine- gun bullet
(b) A tattoo of his mother
(c) A tattoo of his girl friend
(d) A Semper Fi tattoo

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

11. Chapter 19 What is the diagnosis given by Doc Rabbit about the young child who is carried on a stretcher by some villagers?
(a) He will recover fully.
(b) He is sure to die.
(c) He will be blinded from his head wound.
(d) He will be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

12. What do four hippies sitting outside a restaurant call Gilliland?
(a) Baby Killer
(b) Killing Machine
(c) War Monger
(d) Coward

13. Which member of Snake's platoon loses his leg?
(a) Flaky
(b) Corky
(c) Kerlovic
(d) Baby Cakes

14. Who is hit as Snake's company has point patrol in Go Noi?
(a) Snake and Wild Man
(b) Doc and Bagger
(c) Bagger and Chuck
(d) Wild Man and Bagger

15. What does Roland decide to do when he receives his draft notice?
(a) Go to Canada
(b) Join the Army
(c) Join the Marines
(d) Join the Navy

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 24 Where is Cat Man's native home?

2. Why does Phony join the Marines?

3. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?

4. When Dan surrenders to the Marines, what position do they offer him?

5. What is the plan Senator devises to make him sick enough to go for treatment to the Battalion Aid Station?

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