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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 is Alpha Company looking for on their marches in chapter 17?
(a) A place to rest
(b) Viet Cong
(c) Mines
(d) Rifles

2. How do the soldiers take vengeance?
(a) Setting up their own mine fields
(b) Hiding in the jungle
(c) Raping any women
(d) Setting fire to villages

3. Which of the following is the best definition for the term paralyzing as used in the following sentence? They fight paralyzing fear with each step they take.
(a) Make somebody temporarily unable to move
(b) Bring to a standstill
(c) Deprive somebody of voluntary movement
(d) Inability to move and think

4. Which of the following events takes place about one hour after the new commander takes charge of Alpha Company?
(a) Thirty soldiers killed in one hour
(b) A racial crime
(c) Men led into a mine field
(d) O'Brien gets a leave pass

5. Which of the following terms does not accurately describe Captain Smith?
(a) Brave
(b) Slovenly
(c) Careless
(d) Inept

Short Answer Questions

1. In which part of her body had she been shot?

2. Which of the following ways is not one of the ways O'Brien and Bates get through the holidays?

3. Which of the following characters replaces Captain Johansen?

4. What do the men of Alpha Company use to fight the constant fear?

5. What new job does O'Brien finally earn at the end of August?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you classify Major Callicles mental state?

2. What accident occurs which kills or injures dozens of refugees?

3. Why is the white first sergeant fragged?

4. When do the men of the village go fishing?

5. Why are the soldiers bitter?

6. How does O'Brien feel about himself?

7. Why are the soldiers so angry?

8. What similarity to the soldiers' situation does the Captain draw for the scout?

9. Why does Major Callicles try to humiliate O'Brien?

10. What does O'Brien say ruins a man's psyche?

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