Cultural Rebellion: Mid-Twentieth Century Voices — Test

Question 1

Read this excerpt from “Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk.” I remember distinctly the thrill of climbing aboard a U.S. Army helicopter in the cool of the morning and taking off across the rice fields with a South Vietnamese battalion for a day’s jousting with the Vietcong guerillas. There was hope then that the non-Communist Vietnamese might win their war. I was proud of the young American pilots sitting at the controls in the cockpit and I was grateful for the opportunity to witness this adventure and to report it. We are fighting now, I used to think, and some day we will triumph and this will be a better country. Which choice best describes how the author builds conflict in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He reflects back and describes his initial optimism of the war.

Question 2

How are the authors of “Ambush” and “Facing It” similar in their view of war?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both authors have painful and conflicted feelings.

Question 3

Which element is used in both “Ambush” and “Facing It” to create tension and conflict?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the conflicted thoughts of the narrators

Question 4

Read the excerpt from Dispatches . By autumn, what had begun as an adventurous expedition had turned into an exhausting, indecisive war of attrition in which we fought for no cause other than our own survival. Which statement best explains the paradox in the excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It is odd that war should ever be viewed as an adventurous expedition.

Question 5

Which sentence from Dispatches contains the best example of sensory language?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

There would be dozens of them at once sometimes, trailing an intense smoke, dropping white-hot sparks, and it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues.

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