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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people from Billy's platoon are going to Vietnam?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

2. What kind of powder does Richie use for his rashes?
(a) Foot powder.
(b) Baby powder.
(c) Army issue medicated powder.
(d) Baking powder.

3. At the end of Act 1, what does Richie do to Carlyle to get Billy to yell at him?
(a) Richie covers up Carlyle and pats his arm.
(b) Richie lies down beside Carlyle.
(c) Richie kisses Carlyle.
(d) Richie kicks Carlyle.

4. What is Rooney's (L.B.J.) MOS?
(a) Flight coordinator.
(b) Demolitions.
(c) Weaponry.
(d) Medical technician.

5. Roger asks Billy if he would rather fight a war in the freezing cold or one where there were "awful ....". Awful what?
(a) Living quarters.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Sergeants.
(d) Poisons.

6. As Richie is discussing the war with Billy and Roger, who does he claim hangs snakes by the tail in dark caves waiting for soldiers to enter and be bitten?
(a) German soldiers.
(b) American soliders in Vietnam.
(c) The Russians.
(d) Vietcong.

7. After lights out, why does Carlyle say he is crawling on the floor?
(a) Carlyle says he is practicing his duties: "the low crawl."
(b) He has found a mouse and is following it home.
(c) He has gone mad and reverted to child-like behaviors.
(d) He is pretending he is at war and crawling through rice paddies.

8. What is Rooney's nickname for Cokes?
(a) Pop.
(b) Cokie.
(c) Diet.
(d) Keys.

9. After Richie leaves to take a shower, what do Billy and Roger decide to do?
(a) Go find Martin.
(b) Go shower.
(c) Mop and buff the floor.
(d) Look at a Playboy.

10. According to Cokes, what makes the "gooks" yellow?
(a) Too much beer.
(b) Old booze and urinating in the water supply.
(c) Rice.
(d) Yellow fever as children.

11. What happens to Cokes after he and Rooney finish singing their song?
(a) Cokes punches Billy.
(b) Cokes passes out and dies.
(c) Cokes kisses Richie.
(d) Cokes falls on his face.

12. What do Roger and Billy bring Carlyle while he is laying on the floor?
(a) The blankets from their beds.
(b) The mop.
(c) Another beer.
(d) The Playboy.

13. What does Roger claim will happen to Sarge (Rooney) within one year?
(a) He will be dishonorably discharged.
(b) He will die in action in the war.
(c) He will drink himself to death.
(d) He will blow himself up.

14. How are Cokes's boots different from everyone else's?
(a) Cokes wears jungle boots.
(b) Cokes's boots are brown.
(c) Cokes does not wear boots; he wears dress shoes.
(d) Cokes's boots have a bullet hole in them.

15. What is Richie's sexual orientation?
(a) Homosexual.
(b) Bisexual.
(c) Hetrosexual.
(d) A-sexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Billy come to join the Army?

2. What does Carlyle pull out of his pocket after catching Roger in Richie's footlocker?

3. What did Cokes do to the man in the spider hole?

4. Who are the two black characters in the play?

5. Because of O'Flannigan's accident, what song was he unable to sing?

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