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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pavlo first respond to the army recruits?
(a) He becomes agitated.
(b) He yells at them
(c) He looks for his wallet.
(d) He does not recognize them.

2. Where is Pavlo while Pierce, HInkle, and Kress are setting up their game?
(a) In the office on the phone.
(b) On the barrack floor doing push-ups.
(c) Doing pull-ups on the bunks.
(d) Under his blanket.

3. What did the man in the Corporal's story do to the two Vietnamese people?
(a) Shot them dead.
(b) Spit in their faces.
(c) Took their weapons.
(d) Begged for forgiveness.

4. What is the story about that Pavlo tells Pierce in the furnace room?
(a) When he drank too much in high school.
(b) His mother's insanity.
(c) His uncle being executed.
(d) How he used to love fire.

5. What does Pierce first drunkenly say to Pavlo?
(a) That it's strange to be squad leader.
(b) That it's no fun being squad leader.
(c) That it's a riot being squad leader.
(d) That it's confusing being squad leader.

6. How does Tower conclude his weapon drill in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Taking the trainees on a hunting trip with no guns.
(b) Making the soldiers make their beds five times in a row.
(c) Making the trainees stand outside for 5 hours.
(d) Taking the trainees on a 5 mile run.

7. What does Pavlo also explain thinking about while holding the grenade?
(a) How well his hometown baseball coach could throw.
(b) How he might not live.
(c) How his dad taught him to throw.
(d) How he would cover the granade with his body.

8. What is the subject of the first army song sung?
(a) How they are only strong in numbers.
(b) How fun it is to be in the army.
(c) How unfaithful women are when their men are at war.
(d) How having a gun makes you weaker.

9. What does Ardell first ask Pavlo?
(a) His age.
(b) If he knows what happened.
(c) If he has killed.
(d) Where he thinks he's going.

10. What does Pavlo do after weapons drill that nobody else does?
(a) Pull-ups.
(b) Jumping jacks.
(c) Push-ups.
(d) Sit-ups.

11. What is Pavlo's response to Ardell's comment about a radiation attack?
(a) He begins to cry.
(b) He laughs in Ardell's face.
(c) He nods his head violently until Ardell stops him.
(d) He repeats the word "no" over and over.

12. What age does Pavlo remember being while holding the grenade?
(a) Eight years old.
(b) Five years old.
(c) Sixteen years old.
(d) Three years old.

13. What does Pavlo do when he sees Pierce coming after being beaten up by the other trainees?
(a) Grabs a book and pretends to read.
(b) Runs back to the barracks pretending to have forgotten something.
(c) Stands up and salutes him.
(d) Begins to cry quietly.

14. When Ardell suggests that being dead makes Pavlo furious, how does Pavlo respond?
(a) By crying quietly.
(b) By denying it.
(c) By running out of the room for air.
(d) By agreeing with Ardell.

15. While Towers is giving bayonet instruction, what does he say one must have in order to use it properly?
(a) "The ability to kill."
(b) "The ability to listen."
(c) "The desire to destroy."
(d) "The spirit to kill."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in Towers's story to the trainees did Towers surprise during World War II?

2. Upon finding Pavlo in the state he is in, what does Hinkle do upon returning to the game?

3. When Pierce and Pavlo are speaking in the furnace room, what does Ardell do to Pavlo as the other trainees are in formation?

4. What does Pavlo remind Tower of when told he had to follow through on his punishment?

5. What two words does Ardell claim will be of meaning to all people after this event?

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