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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. What do the Japanese do at night while Sledge is on Peleliu?
(a) Fire on the camps.
(b) Collect souveniers from dead soldiers.
(c) Infiltrate the front lines.
(d) Bury their dead.
2. What did Sledge's instructors promise that they would need to know to do?
(a) Cauterize a wound.
(b) Fight with a knife.
(c) Shoot with precision.
(d) Walk without sound.
3. What is surprising about the Japanese counter attack on Peleliu?
(a) It was not a Banzai attack.
(b) It came too soon.
(c) It was not as intense as anticipated.
(d) It was much more intense than anticipated.
4. What is Sledge momentarily pinned down by at Peleliu?
(a) Japanese foot soldiers.
(b) Friendly fire.
(c) A tree root.
(d) Banzai attack.
5. What causes Sledge momentary mental confusion as he is fighting outside of the pillbox?
(a) He loses his hearing for a moment from a blast.
(b) He sees a good friend die.
(c) He witnesses his first direct kill.
(d) He sees a Marine accidentally kill another Marine.
Short Answer Questions
1. What unique hand-to-hand combat technique was offered at Camp Elliot?
2. What did the new Marines do to the veterans?
3. What do the men kill with gusto while they are stationed away from the combat zones?
4. What happens by mistake on Peleliu that causes Sledge to hate the waste and cruelty of war?
5. What does Sledge watch explode from direct Japanese fire?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sledge feel about Haldane?
2. What does Sledge do as he and Shelton have to cross a highly unprotected air-strip on Peleliu?
3. What do the new marines in infantry training do when they meet some real veterans of war?
4. Why is Sledge so excited to join combat?
5. What is Doherty's main focus while training Sledge and his classmates in boot camp?
6. Why are there piles of corpses and feces lying around while Sledge is stationed in Peleliu?
7. How does Sledge's platoon react to the death of Haldane?
8. What do the Japanese soldiers do at night while Sledge is stationed in Peleliu?
9. What is different about Sledge's fear before he lands at the beach of Okinawa from when he landed at Peleliu?
10. Why did Sledge fail his class at the Officers Training Program?
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