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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. Where is Alpha Company when O'Brien arrives?
(a) Unaccounted for
(b) On a mission
(c) Having recreation time
(d) Gathering dead bodies

2. What is the goal of the soldiers in relation to the insurgents?
(a) Capture
(b) Surrender
(c) Elimination
(d) Hid

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warned Alpha Company of an incoming explosive ordinance?

2. 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.

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

4. What do the soldiers decide to do when they discover a tunnel in a village rather than sending a soldier down?

5. What is the name of the base camp fro Alpha Company?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the members of Alpha Company do that is ignoring the orders from their officers?

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

4. What are the soldiers constantly fighting to find?

5. What provides O'Brien with his only intellectual connection?

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

7. Why does the Chaplain disappoint O'Brien?

8. In what way do Erik and O'Brien catch the attention of the drill sergeant?

9. What is sometimes the cause of the explosive ordinance attacks?

10. Why does the smoke from Tri Binh 4 trouble O'Brien?

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