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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?
(a) If he has a Russian made gun, he is a Viet Cong.
(b) If he attempts to hide, he is a Viet Cong.
(c) If the acts suspiciously, he is a Viet Cong.
(d) If he is dead and Vietnamese, he is a Viet Cong.

2. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.
(b) There are just too many to find all of them.
(c) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(d) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.

3. What do they experience on their first night?
(a) Night brings sniper fire in the distance and swarms of biting insects.
(b) At night they can see the flashes of bombs detonated.
(c) The night becomes unbearably cold.
(d) Night brings on a monsoon rain.

4. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(b) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(c) Enemy fighters fly overhead.
(d) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.

5. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?
(a) It's a kind of war game they play.
(b) There are several false alarms of going to war, but none pan out .
(c) There is nothing better to do.
(d) They want to be sure they know what to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?

2. How does Caputo describe the feelings of the men after the destruction of the village Giao-Tri?

3. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.

4. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?

5. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?

(see the answer key)

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