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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bagger do when he hears the song, These Eyes?
(a) He sings along, even in battle.
(b) He looks at pictures of his wife and son.
(c) He gets up and dances with an invisible partner.
(d) He starts crying.

3. What condition are Ogre and Baby Cakes in when they are found?
(a) They were hanged from a tree.
(b) They were beaten to death.
(c) They were both shot in the forehead.
(d) They were stabbed.

4. What is the extent of Vitelli's injuries?
(a) He has shrapnel in the abdomen.
(b) He is shot in the neck.
(c) He has a lethal shot to the chest.
(d) He is shot in the foot.

5. Chapter 22 How many of Bagger's football team joined the Marines at the same time?
(a) Four
(b) Eight
(c) Two
(d) Six

6. What is Hodges thinking when he sees that Flaky has been shot?
(a) He will be more attentive to Flaky from now on.
(b) He wishes someone else had been shot and not Flaky.
(c) He is glad it is Flaky that is shot and not someone else.
(d) He is sorry for not being a better friend to Flaky.

7. Chapter 8 How does Senator's friend, John Grimsley, get out of going to Vietnam?
(a) He shoots himself in the foot.
(b) He cuts off his finger.
(c) He is given a psychological deferment.
(d) He goes to Canada.

8. How does Cat Man get his nickname?
(a) He is named Cat Man because he sees things that others don't notice.
(b) He is named Cat Man because he prowls the night silently.
(c) He is named Cat Man because his laugh sounds like a cat's meow.
(d) He is named Cat Man because he purrs after he eats.

9. Who goes to look for Baby Cakes and Ogre when they disappear?
(a) Senator, Cat Man, and Sadler
(b) Snake, Cannonball, Senator, Bagger, and Cat Man
(c) Cannonball and Sadler
(d) Senator, Sadler, and Bagger

10. Chapter 12 What kind of a childhood did Phony have?
(a) A rough childhood in foster homes
(b) A happy childhood with his parents
(c) An unhappy childhood with his parents
(d) A happy childhood in a foster home

11. What do the Marines do with the bodies of Baby Cakes and Ogre?
(a) They leave them behind.
(b) They carry them back to camp on stretchers.
(c) They bury them.
(d) They say a prayer over the bodies.

12. How do the civilians in America treat Gilliland when he returns home wearing his uniform?
(a) They treat him like a hero.
(b) They treat him with respect.
(c) They look at him like he is an animal.
(d) They pity him.

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

14. Chapter 2 What is the reason that Bobby Hodges enlists in the armed forces?
(a) He doesn't know what else to do with his life.
(b) He is trying to escape a petty crime.
(c) He is carrying on the family tradition of fighting for his country.
(d) His mother convinces him to go.

15. Chapter 9 What type of man is Angus Austin, the new Platoon Sergeant?
(a) He is aggressive and mean spirited.
(b) He is friendly, mild, and child-like.
(c) He is funny and exuberant.
(d) He is humorless, dry voiced, and old for thirty one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 4 What is the injury that Ogre sustains during enemy fire?

2. What is the Reverend's view on racism?

3. What does Bagger do before he leaves for war?

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

5. Why does Goodrich decide to be in Bagger's team?

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