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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Of Mud and Maggots.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of the water that the Marines are supplied with after the first day of battle at Peleliu?
(a) Cluttered with debris.
(b) Cool and crisp.
(c) Hot but clean.
(d) Foul and polluted.

2. What is Sledge momentarily pinned down by at Peleliu?
(a) Japanese foot soldiers.
(b) Friendly fire.
(c) Banzai attack.
(d) A tree root.

3. What is Sledge's reaction to the first Japanese casualties he sees?
(a) He is numb to any emotion.
(b) He is sickened.
(c) He feels hatred.
(d) He finds mercy in his heart.

4. What does Lieutenant Stanley collapse from after the fighting at Okinawa?
(a) Shock.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Dehydration.
(d) Malaria.

5. What is different from Bailey and the other officers at Sledge's non-combat location?
(a) He knows some of the enlisted men.
(b) He is a veteran.
(c) He did not feel himself above the enlisted soldiers.
(d) He was promoted because of merit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sledge do at every stop along the way as they advance along the airfield on Peleliu?

2. What do the men kill with gusto while they are stationed away from the combat zones?

3. What is covering nearly every surface while Sledge works as a stretcher bearer?

4. What does Sledge feel is slipping away as he endures barrage after barrage of Japanese fire on Okinawa?

5. What does Sledge resent about the officers giving him orders during his non-combat time?

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