Q 01/05

The recruit known as 'Cowboy' tells Hartman he comes from which state?

A) Oklahoma

B) Texas

C) Wyoming

D) Montana

Answer · why

B) Texas

Texas: Hartman greets the news with a volley of insults, and Private Cowboy carries the nickname all the way to command of a squad in Vietnam.

Q 02/05

Full Metal Jacket is based on which 1979 autobiographical novel?

A) Dispatches

B) The Things They Carried

C) The Short-Timers

D) Fields of Fire

Answer · why

C) The Short-Timers

The Short-Timers has three sections: the film stretches its brief boot-camp opening into half the running time and all but drops the last.

Q 03/05

Which actor plays Animal Mother, the squad's combat-hungry machine gunner?

A) Dorian Harewood

B) Adam Baldwin

C) Ed O'Ross

D) Kevyn Major Howard

Answer · why

B) Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin's Animal Mother takes command when Cowboy is shot and leads the squad's attack on the sniper who has been picking them off.

Q 04/05

Michael Herr, Kubrick's co-writer, was the author of which Vietnam memoir?

A) A Rumor of War

B) Dispatches

C) Chickenhawk

D) If I Die in a Combat Zone

Answer · why

B) Dispatches

Dispatches and then Apocalypse Now had left him wanting nothing more to do with Vietnam, he told Kubrick; it took some three years of phone calls to c...

Q 05/05

The title Full Metal Jacket refers to what?

A) A Marine dress uniform

B) A body-armour vest

C) A type of bullet

D) A brand of helmet

Answer · why

C) A type of bullet

A type of bullet, its soft core cased in harder metal; the phrase is heard in the film when Pyle names his live rounds: 'Seven-six-two millimetre. Ful...