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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offer does the Major make to Hodges?
(a) He offers Hodges a collectible rifle.
(b) He offers Hodges an honorable discharge.
(c) He offers Hodges a position in Okinawa.
(d) He offers Hodges a rank promotion.

2. What does Bagger tell Hodges as they sit together on his cot?
(a) He thinks he might kill himself.
(b) He thinks Goodrich is a traitor.
(c) He feels something bad is going to happen.
(d) He feels protected by some unknown force.

3. What does a Vietnamese boy offer to sell to the soldiers as they work?
(a) Rice
(b) Tobacco
(c) His sister
(d) Marijuana

4. What advice does Goodrich give to his friend Mark who arrives from Canada after evading the draft?
(a) He tells Mark he should surrender.
(b) He tells Mark to live with the underground.
(c) He tells Mark to stay in Canada.
(d) He tells Mark to change his name.

5. What becomes of Snake as he carries Goodrich toward Hodges?
(a) He is accidentally shot by his own men.
(b) He steps on a land mine.
(c) He is blasted with a grenade.
(d) He is shot with machine gun fire.

6. What is Kersey's reply when Hodges asks him if there is somewhere his men can hold up until the fighting starts?
(a) Kersey sends them to the mess hall.
(b) Kersey invites the men to stay with him.
(c) Kersey shows Hodges where a dry tent is located.
(d) Kersey tells Hodges that he is not running a hotel.

7. What does Snake do in order to bring Senator out of shock and lessen the bleeding?
(a) He throws water in Senator's face and puts pressure on the wound.
(b) He places Senator's upside down.
(c) He gives Senator Morphine and covers the wound.
(d) He throws water in Senator's face and gives him Morphine.

8. What is one of the first things the men ask Hodges to do when they see him?
(a) Tell them about home
(b) Tell them what is going on in the jungle
(c) Show them his scars
(d) Who else he saw at the hospital

9. Who does Goodrich tell about the scene when his platoon found Baby Cakes and Ogre?
(a) The Regimental Legal Officer
(b) The Commanding Officer
(c) The Sergeant Major
(d) The Four Star General

10. What does Hodges' friend ask him before he leaves?
(a) He asks Hodges if he regrets enlisting.
(b) He asks Hodges if they can meet again.
(c) He asks Hodges if he is afraid.
(d) He asks if Hodges thinks they can win the war.

11. What is Snake's reply to Kersey's order to move the men?
(a) Snake won't move the men until he hears it from the Lieutenant.
(b) He pushes Kersey to the ground.
(c) He tells his men to move to the paddy.
(d) He defies the order outright.

12. Where do Hodges' men take position?
(a) In the hills
(b) Up river
(c) Along the perimeter of a paddy
(d) In a nearby bunker

13. What do the Marines need to do as a result of Goodrich's statement about murder?
(a) An article 38 investigation
(b) An article 75 investigation
(c) An article 32 investigation
(d) An article 27 investigation

14. What is Goodrich's view of bush justice?
(a) He feels that it is just the way of war.
(b) He believes they have no right to play God.
(c) He doesn't like it but he will participate.
(d) He feels that they are justified in killing the Vietnamese.

15. Why doesn't Dan agree with Operation Lam Son 719?
(a) He believes they should form a truce.
(b) He believes they should attack in the opposite direction.
(c) He believes they should surrender.
(d) He believes there are enough problems right where they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Snake want to follow Kersey's order to set up his men in the paddy?

2. What are Snake and the other men so excited about as they travel from the helicopter pad?

3. Why is Jones sent back to the World?

4. What happens to Dan's column when they enter Laos?

5. As Snake sees the mountains in the distance, what does he think about himself?

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