Fallen Angels Vocabulary Quiz

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  1. Abbreviation for Vietcong, the enemy

    2. Your answer:
    Hemophilia
    Congs
    Hut

  2. a portable building with a semicircular metal roof that curves down to form walls

    3. Your answer:
    Gung ho
    Slant
    Quonest hut

  3. an African American writer

    4. Your answer:
    James Baldwin
    Malaria
    Battalion

  4. a hereditary disease that affets the blood's ability to clot

    5. Your answer:
    ARVN
    Hemophilia
    Insignia

  5. a thatched hut

    6. Your answer:
    Shrapel
    Hooch
    Congs

  6. slang for Vietnam

    7. Your answer:
    In country
    GI
    Lee Marvin

  7. slang for dedicated, loyal, enthusiastic

    8. Your answer:
    Gook
    Bird
    Gung ho

  8. a tropical disease spread by infected mosquitos

    9. Your answer:
    Brace
    Malaria
    Quonest hut

  9. a derogatory term for the Vietnamese people

    10. Your answer:
    Battalion
    LZ
    Slant

  10. a badge of rank

    11. Your answer:
    Huey
    Flak jacket
    Insignia

  11. shell fragments from a high-explosive shell

    12. Your answer:
    Shrapel
    Mojo lady
    Latrine

  12. short for genral infantry

    13. Your answer:
    GI
    Brace
    Malaria

  13. short for landing zone

    14. Your answer:
    In country
    Congs
    LZ

  14. a pair

    15. Your answer:
    Malaria
    Brace
    Paddies

  15. a heavy vest designed to protect against bullets and shrapel

    16. Your answer:
    Dear John Letter
    Flak jacket
    Gook

  16. the South Vietnamese army (allies of the American forces)

    17. Your answer:
    Hooch
    ARVN
    Insignia

  17. a derogatory term for Vietnamese people

    18. Your answer:
    Appendicitis
    In country
    Gook

  18. slang term for a brand of liquor

    19. Your answer:
    Bird
    Lee Marvin
    Cordite

  19. slang term for a woman who practices voodoo

    20. Your answer:
    Gook
    ARVN
    Mojo lady

  20. a colorless, gaseous compound used for embalming fluid

    21. Your answer:
    Gook
    Molotov Cocktail
    Formaldehyde

  21. a homemade bomb in a bottle

    22. Your answer:
    Molotov Cocktail
    Huey
    Brace

  22. a large body of military troops, usually a headquarters company and at least two infantry or artillery companies

    23. Your answer:
    Battalion
    Cordite
    Wilson Pickett

  23. a 1960's action hero

    24. Your answer:
    Artillery
    Lee Marvin
    Huey

  24. a 1960's entertainer, famous for the song "Mustang Sally"

    25. Your answer:
    Huey
    Wilson Pickett
    Busby Berkley

  25. a musical director

    26. Your answer:
    Jimi Hendrix
    Busby Berkley
    Battalion

  26. battle helicopter

    27. Your answer:
    Cordite
    Huey
    On relief

  27. a painful inflamation of the appendix, oftern requiring surgery

    28. Your answer:
    Appendicitis
    Pacification
    Medevac

  28. a bathroom

    29. Your answer:
    Saigon
    Latrine
    Cordite

  29. a 1960's rock guitarist

    30. Your answer:
    Lee Marvin
    Wilson Pickett
    Jimi Hendrix

  30. slang term for a letter in which one person breaks up with another

    31. Your answer:
    Huey
    Saigon
    Dear John Letter

  31. slang term for receiving government aid

    32. Your answer:
    Paddies
    On relief
    Salve

  32. a smokeless explosive powder

    33. Your answer:
    Artillery
    Cordite
    Medevac

  33. large-caliber firing weapons that are operated by crews

    34. Your answer:
    Artillery
    Pacification
    Bandolier

  34. to stop a battle

    35. Your answer:
    Stand down
    Saigon
    Salve

  35. a belt crisscrossed over a soldier's chest for carrying ammunition

    36. Your answer:
    Bandolier
    Cordite
    On relief

  36. the capital of South Vietnam

    37. Your answer:
    Saigon
    Bird
    Latrine

  37. an incentive program for miliary personnel that provides college tuition

    38. Your answer:
    GI Bill
    Medevac
    Dear John Letter

  38. a bag soldiers use to hold equipment

    39. Your answer:
    Bandolier
    Gook
    rucksack

  39. helicopter corp that transports wounded soldiers to field hospitals

    40. Your answer:
    Saigon
    Medevac
    Cache

  40. a program to encourage peaceful submission of Vietnamese districts

    41. Your answer:
    Salve
    Diana Ross
    Pacification

  41. a village

    42. Your answer:
    Vatican
    Hamlet
    Cordite

  42. fields of rice

    43. Your answer:
    Hypocrite
    Spookies
    Paddies

  43. medical ointment

    44. Your answer:
    Formaldehyde
    Salve
    Insignia

  44. a 1960's enertainer

    45. Your answer:
    Diana Ross
    Silhouette
    Tet

  45. a 1960s actress, dancer,pin-up girl

    46. Your answer:
    Juliet Prowse
    Deploy
    Phil Silvers

  46. a solid profile or outline

    47. Your answer:
    Interdiction
    Silhouette
    Reconnaissance

  47. a hiding place fo valuable items

    48. Your answer:
    Hypocrite
    Cache
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

  48. an area that has been cleared of enemy soldiers

    49. Your answer:
    Demilitarized zone
    Silhouette
    Tet

  49. a regional survey to gather military information

    50. Your answer:
    Reconnaissance
    Bivouacked
    Perimeter

  50. Vietnamese New Year's clebration

    51. Your answer:
    Interdiction
    Juliet Prowse
    Tet

  51. Oscar-winning movie about an inerracial affair

    52. Your answer:
    Rickety
    Couteroffensive
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  52. untrained combatants who act seperately from the regular army

    53. Your answer:
    Guerillas
    Deploy
    Perimeter

  53. straegically placed troops

    54. Your answer:
    Silhouette
    Deploy
    Demilitarized Zone

  54. to deter enemy activity

    55. Your answer:
    Spookies
    Perimeter
    Interdiction

  55. a 1960's television comedian

    56. Your answer:
    Diana Ross
    Mary Wells
    Phil Silvers

  56. one who acts in direct contrast to his or her stated beliefs

    57. Your answer:
    Hypocrite
    Punji sticks
    AWOL

  57. a fortified boundary that protects a military position

    58. Your answer:
    Rucksack
    Perimeter
    Cache

  58. C-47 gunships

    59. Your answer:
    Sniper
    Spookies
    Rickety

  59. a slang term for the wilderness or a sparsely populated area

    60. Your answer:
    Shirelles
    Morphine
    Boonieville

  60. a field camp for soldiers

    61. Your answer:
    Napalm
    Bivouacked
    Rite

  61. sharpened bamboo stuck into the ground to impale or jab

    62. Your answer:
    Spookies
    Punji sticks
    Sniper

  62. Absent Without Leave; leaving a military post without permission

    63. Your answer:
    Impassively
    AWOL
    Vatican

  63. unstable; shaky

    64. Your answer:
    Rickety
    Boonieville
    Spookies

  64. military defense maneuver in which attack in returned to the enemy

    65. Your answer:
    Napalm
    Sniper
    Couteroffensive

  65. petition for needed items

    66. Your answer:
    Requisition
    Rickety
    AWOL

  66. National Cemetary in Arlington, Virginia, used as burial groud for military personnel; contains the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

    67. Your answer:
    Arlington Cemetary
    Phil Silvers
    Tet

  67. a skilled military rifleman detailed to shoot enemy soldiers from a concealed place

    68. Your answer:
    Shirelles
    Sniper
    Vatican

  68. a gelled gasoline bomb dropped by fighter jets onto enemy troops

    69. Your answer:
    Napalm
    Cache
    Morphine

  69. without emotion

    70. Your answer:
    Rickety
    Impassively
    Counteroffensive

  70. a ceremonial act, usually religious in nature

    71. Your answer:
    Perimeter
    Hypocrite
    Rite

  71. a 1960s entertainer

    72. Your answer:
    Mary Wells
    Vatican
    Morphine

  72. not pertaining to any particular religious congregation

    73. Your answer:
    Nondnominational
    Boonieville
    Spookies

  73. a rock group famous for covering songs from the 1950s

    74. Your answer:
    Requisition
    Sha Na Na
    Napalm

  74. an addictive opiate that eases pain

    75. Your answer:
    Shirelles
    Morphine
    Rite

  75. the headquarters of the Catholic church

    76. Your answer:
    Perimeter
    Vatican
    Bivouacked

  76. a 1960s African-American singing group

    77. Your answer:
    Shirelles
    Sha Na Na
    Mary Wells

  77. a theater in New York where many famous African-American entertainers perform

    78. Your answer:
    Apollo Theater
    Impassively
    Rickety

  78. Who is the author of Fallen Angles?

    79. Your answer:
    Walter Dean Myers
    Mr. Hoham
    Mr. Rosenburg

  79. a particular kind of speech used by members of one specific group

    80. Your answer:
    Flashback
    Conflict
    Dialect

  80. substituting a milder word or phrase for one that might be offensive or harsh

    81. Your answer:
    Euphemism
    Double Entendre
    Foil

  81. exaggeration for emhasis; overstatement

    82. Your answer:
    Irony
    Hyperbole
    Protagonist

  82. a perception of inconsistency, in which the understandng of a statement or event is changed by its context

    83. Your answer:
    Irony
    Mood
    Foreshadowing

  83. a comparision of two things that are dissimilar, in which one is described in terms of the other

    84. Your answer:
    Metaphor
    Hyperbole
    Irony

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