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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. Which of the following best describes the weather during Chapter four?
(a) Humid and dry
(b) Wet and cold
(c) Humid and Rainy
(d) Extreme heat and dry

2. Which of the following terms best describes they type of explosive attack which occurred in Chapter four?
(a) Enemy waged
(b) Weapon malfunction
(c) Self-induced
(d) Misaimed weapon

3. 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) Resigned
(b) Short hair cut
(c) Deprived of something
(d) Closely guarded

4. What is O'Brien's job with Alpha Company?
(a) Medic
(b) Sniper
(c) Simply foot soldier
(d) Operating the radio

5. What does it mean to the members of Alpha Company to be getting short?
(a) 5-6 months left in Vietnam
(b) Loss of a limb
(c) Out of ammunition
(d) Injured but not incapacitated

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom must any soldier who wishes to meet with the battalion commander meet with prior to being allowed to meet with the battalion commander?

2. Which of the following presidents is not referred to in this chapter?

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

4. To which company is O'Brien first assigned?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does O'Brien see himself during basic training?

3. What causes fear and paranoia in the soldiers?

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

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

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

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

8. What do the soldiers do that provokes a few Viet Cong hiding in the jungle to open fire before disappearing into the jungle?

9. Describe how the soldiers feel during the fire fight.

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

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