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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of the following states did O'Brien complete his basic training?
(a) Washington
(b) Missouri
(c) Oregon
(d) Texas

2. What game do O'Brien and Captain Johansen play?
(a) Poker
(b) Marbles
(c) Chess
(d) Checkers

3. To which company is O'Brien first assigned?
(a) Alpha
(b) Combat
(c) Bravo
(d) Gator

4. Who gives the soldiers of Alpha Company back rubs?
(a) Little boys
(b) Other soldiers
(c) Prostitutes
(d) No one

5. With whom does O'Brien request a meeting?
(a) Chaplain
(b) Battalion commander
(c) Drill sergeant
(d) Parents

6. Where does O'Brien say is the only place that Alpha Companies friendships are deep?
(a) When someone is killed
(b) Foxholes
(c) While marching
(d) While on R&R

7. Which of the following was not an accurate description, according to O'Brien, of the men who make up Alpha company?
(a) Lost all sense of proper human interpersonal communication
(b) Lost all manners
(c) Bizarre
(d) Curse wildly

8. What does the forest symbolize to O'Brien?
(a) Disgust
(b) Fear
(c) Anger
(d) Inability to be reassured

9. Which of the following is the best definition of the term shorn as used in the following sentence? Everyone is sober, shaven and shorn after raising their hands and reciting an oath.
(a) Deprived of something
(b) Short hair cut
(c) Resigned
(d) Closely guarded

10. What does humping mean in military lingo?
(a) Shooting
(b) Walking
(c) Marching
(d) Searching

11. Where did O'Brien meet a Vietnamese student who was also a Viet Cong officer?
(a) College
(b) Prague
(c) Missouri
(d) Basic Training

12. What does O'Brien develop an interest in during high school?
(a) Service to his country
(b) War methods and techniques
(c) Acting
(d) Politics

13. How do the men of Alpha Company react to the nighttime attack?
(a) Hide in foxholes
(b) Organize themselves to counter attack
(c) Laugh
(d) Take cover

14. Who does O'Brien want to write like when he leaves Vietnam?
(a) Waldo
(b) Hemingway
(c) Plato
(d) Emerson

15. Which person with whom O'Brien meets to share his opposition to the war curses regularly?
(a) Battalion commander
(b) Parents
(c) Chaplain
(d) Drill sergeant

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was one of O'Brien's common winter activities?

2. Which of the following was one of O'Brien's common summer activities?

3. Which of the following terms best describes they type of explosive attack which occurred in Chapter four?

4. Which best describes how the soldiers feel about minor shrapnel injuries?

5. In which of the following wars did O'Brien's parents serve?

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