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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. What does the battalion commander believe is O'Brien's problem?
(a) Poor hygiene
(b) Afraid of dying
(c) Inadequate training
(d) Moral struggle

2. Which of the following is the literary term for when O'Brien keeps adding elements from events which happened prior to those he is describing?
(a) Past Regression
(b) Flashback
(c) Alliteration
(d) Irony

3. What do the soldiers decide to do when they discover a tunnel in a village rather than sending a soldier down?
(a) Shoot their guns into the tunnel
(b) Throw grenades into the tunnel
(c) Send a villager into the tunnel
(d) Ignore it and move on to another village

4. What is different about chapter ten than the others?
(a) It was not written by O'Brien
(b) It is the longest
(c) It shows the most compassion
(d) It is only one scene

5. What type of narration is this chapter?
(a) Biographical
(b) First Person
(c) Allegorical
(d) Third Person

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Brien learn about his military future at the beginning of chapter six?

2. What is the name of the lake which O'Brien likes to ride around?

3. Which person with whom O'Brien meets seems more interested in dandruff than his views on the war?

4. Which of the following is the best definition of insanity as used by O'Brien to describe some of his fellow soldiers in chapter four?

5. From which area are the insurgents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the soldiers constantly fighting to find?

2. What is O'Brien's moral dilemma?

3. What do the soldiers learn how to do at the combat center?

4. What do the soldiers often do on the long routine marches that sometimes alerts the enemy to their location?

5. Why does the Chaplain disappoint O'Brien?

6. What does O'Brien rebel against during basic training?

7. Describe O'Brien's childhood and adolescence.

8. How many scenes does the author use in chapter ten?

9. What causes fear and paranoia in the soldiers?

10. To whom does O'Brien write as he continues his plan to desert to Sweden?

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