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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. Chapter 14 What is Gilliland looking forward to after his ten years of military service?
(a) Travelling across the USA
(b) Joining the police force
(c) Working as a private detective
(d) Rest and relaxation

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

3. What is the plan Senator devises to make him sick enough to go for treatment to the Battalion Aid Station?
(a) He decides to shoot off a toe.
(b) He eats rotten food hoping to get food poisoning.
(c) He plans to break his finger.
(d) He hopes to get an infection from rubbing jam into his gook sores.

4. What does Austin rip off Phony's back?
(a) Phony's backpack
(b) Phony's shirt with a peace sign on it
(c) Phony's rifle
(d) Phony's bed roll

5. Chapter 16 Where do black men go to talk about racism and an unjust world?
(a) The commander's tent
(b) The chapel
(c) In the trenches
(d) The Black Shack

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 15 Why does Dan leave his family to fight in the war?

2. Chapter 12 What kind of a childhood did Phony have?

3. Why does Phony join the Marines?

4. What does Cat Man do after he quits school at sixteen?

5. Chapter 21 What is Snake's reaction at seeing Ogre and Baby Cakes again?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Black Shack used for?

2. What does Bobby Hodges awaken to his first night in Vietnam?

3. Why does Snake argue with Austin's order to send a platoon on the other side of the wire at the tree line for LP?

4. What becomes of Baby Cakes, Ogre, and the engineer as they dig out an abandoned bomb?

5. Describe the circumstances when Cat Man arrives in America from Mexico?

6. Why do the men tease Bagger when the song, "These Eyes" plays on the radio?

7. What does Speed suggest to Senator when Senator asks where he should go to resign from the Marines?

8. What is the main reason Ronnie enlists in the Marines?

9. How do Senator's college friends find ways to avoid the draft?

10. Why is Bobby proud to enlist in the Marines?

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