Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Apocalypse Now? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What best describes Col. Kilgore's attitude toward warfare?
He hates warfare and has privately turned against the war.
It's the opposite of peace.
It's what separates the men from the boys.
He loves it and can't get enough of the rush.
Q. As he journeys down the river, what does Willard start to think about the way the war's being conducted?
He thinks that men like Kurtz are messing up a righteous war.
He begins to sympathize with the Viet Cong.
He stops caring about war entirely and gets way into collecting Troll dolls.
He thinks it's being run by incompetent commanders who are dishonest about what they're really doing.
Q. How has Kurtz displeased his commanding officers?
He's refused to fight anymore and become a pacifist.
He's subverted their authority and started running his own private army.
He's refused to wear his uniform because it's polyester—too hot.
He keeps making lame jokes at important meetings.
Q. What's one fact that seems to indicate that Kurtz has gone mad?
He has severed heads all around his compound.
He keeps cutting himself to atone for his sins.
He spends his entire pay on Powerball tickets.
He's naming his pets after Winston Churchill.
Q. What moment does Kurtz claim changed his way of thinking about the war?
He saw South Vietnamese soldiers killing a group of innocent villagers.
He saw that the Viet Cong had chopped off the arms of recently vaccinated children and realized this kind of brutality was necessary to win.
He saw that they were charging ten dollars for bottled water at the landing zone and realized the army was running a scam.
Cambodian soldiers stole his iPhone.