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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Stay of Execution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sledge resent about the officers giving him orders during his non-combat time?
(a) Their inexperience.
(b) Their lack of concern for their mental welfare.
(c) Their condescension.
(d) Their tone.

2. Who dies in mid-April that causes little concern to the troops at Okinawa?
(a) The Japanese Emoprer.
(b) Mac.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) Doc.

3. What does he see the veteran soldiers do when they see the first Japanese casualties?
(a) Praying over the bodies.
(b) Looting the corpses.
(c) Defiling the bodies.
(d) Stepping over the corpses without noticing them.

4. What was the name of the ship that Sledge and his company took after they completed their training?
(a) President Johnson.
(b) President Lincoln.
(c) President Washington.
(d) President Polk.

5. What month does Sledge reach his destination for his off-combat time?
(a) September.
(b) November.
(c) October.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nease do to make their New Year's at the non-combat zone more festive?

2. How do the veteran men feel about their commanding officer on Okinawa?

3. What did Sledge's instructors promise that they would need to know to do?

4. Sledge gets the chance to meet veterans from where?

5. Why do Sledge and the other men in his company feel so lucky in their placement on Okinawa?

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