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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. According to Dwayne's journal, dealing with the Vietcong is a lot like what?
(a) Waiting for a wolverine atttack.
(b) Chasing ghosts.
(c) Looking for morels.
(d) Hunting rabbits.

2. What does Grandma say when she and Sam are talking and Grandpa teasingly inquires about their conversation?
(a) "Girl talk.".
(b) "None of your business.".
(c) "Nothing.".
(d) "Talk to the dog.".

3. What does Grandma Smith call Emmett's digging and such?
(a) Post-war draft dodging.
(b) Avoiding Anita.
(c) Soul searching.
(d) Playing paper dolls.

4. How does the Coke she drinks in the morning make her feel?
(a) Dizzy and sick.
(b) Energized.
(c) Light headed.
(d) Like a kid.

5. Who is mad because Darrel's gear is scattered all over the place?
(a) Dwayne.
(b) Hot Shot.
(c) Bobby G.
(d) Uncle B.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which panel of the Vietnam Memorial shows Dayne Hughes' name?

2. The deep V of the Vietnam Memorial reminds Sam of what?

3. What does Sam's mouth taste like to her in the morning after being at Tom's?

4. What does Sam think the baby's hand is like?

5. Irene says Emmett was what when he went to war?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tom asks if Sam wants eggs, what does she assume will happen?

2. What does Irene ask Sam about the plot of the movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?

3. In Dwayne's journal, what happens when he follows the Vietcong?

4. How does Sam feel about her current status as a runaway?

5. How does Sam perceive the Washington Monument and the flag near the Vietnam Memorial?

6. Why does Sam have the feeling that everyone around her is shooting off in all directions?

7. According to Sam, what do girls, boys, women, and talk about and how are men different?

8. What does Sam think would have happened if her parents had waited to have her until Dwayne got back from the war?

9. Why didn't Sam give her mother the ceramic cat she decorated when Irene gave her $600 to buy the car?

10. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?

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