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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?
(a) Why there are always contingencies.
(b) How to avoid surprise.
(c) Their Quantico training has really paid off.
(d) Nothing ever happens according to plan.

2. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Looking for a place to put their tents
(b) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(c) Getting a tour of the area
(d) Reading field manuals

3. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?
(a) Trip wires and mines
(b) Poison stakes placed so that they are unseen until they scratch the skin
(c) Vines rigged to pull a man into the air
(d) Trenches, spider holes for snipers, pangee traps, and rows of sharp, angled stakes

4. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?
(a) He is hit by a sniper when he gets out of his foxhole.
(b) He comes down with malaria and dies.
(c) He is laying wire where there are mines that had not been removed.
(d) Walking across the airstrip, he is hit by a helicopter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?

2. Who makes up Caputo's first command?

3. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

4. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?

5. What do they hear about right away?

(see the answer key)

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