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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?
(a) Back up the hill to retrieve his belongings.
(b) Back to Danang for a 2-day liberty.
(c) To battalion HQ for a briefing.
(d) To the officers mess to get something to eat.

2. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(b) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(c) Set up an outpost.
(d) Look for snipers and take them out.

3. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(b) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.

4. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) No one has the exact coordinates.
(b) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(c) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(d) The higher commanders do not believe the report.

5. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?
(a) The Marines think it will all be over in a week.
(b) The Marines are sure they will not become casualties.
(c) The Marines enter a war they think they cannot lose.
(d) The Marines believe they can win the war single handedly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?

2. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?

3. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?

4. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?

5. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?

(see the answer key)

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