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

2. Which of the following best describes how O'Brien feels about the war?
(a) It is too far away
(b) It is wrong
(c) It needs to end quickly
(d) It is right

3. Which of the following does O'Brien begin reading?
(a) Hemingway
(b) Socrates
(c) Chaucer
(d) Plato

4. Who leads the march in chapter nine?
(a) Captain Johansen
(b) O'Brien
(c) Mad Mark
(d) Erik

5. Where do the members of Alpha Company go when faced with an incoming explosive ordinance?
(a) Foxhole
(b) Into the forest
(c) Dive to the ground with no cover
(d) Scatter into abandoned homes

Short Answer Questions

1. What game do O'Brien and Captain Johansen play?

2. Which term best describes how O'Brien's basic training went?

3. What does O'Brien experience for the first time in chapter nine?

4. Where does O'Brien say is the only place that Alpha Companies friendships are deep?

5. Which of the following is a term used to describe a hand grenade?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Alpha Company as O'Brien first meets them.

3. How do the soldiers react to these self-induced injuries caused by soldiers tossing about their own grenades?

4. How does O'Brien spend his last summer before starting basic training?

5. What overwhelms O'Brien's opposition to the war?

6. What is available at the combat center for entertainment?

7. Why do the Vietnamese people go everywhere the men of Alpha Company go?

8. What are the first few days like for O'Brien?

9. How does O'Brien obtain his passport and shot records?

10. Describe the message O'Brien wishes to convey through chapter ten.

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