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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?
(a) Six days
(b) Six months
(c) Over a month
(d) Seven weeks

2. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat
(b) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(c) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(d) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat

3. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?
(a) 18
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 21

4. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?
(a) The local police
(b) The fruit venders
(c) The whores called Boom-Boom girls
(d) The Vietnamese Ruff-Puffs on leave

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?

2. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?

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

4. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?

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

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