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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He walks up on an Asian elephant.
(b) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.
(c) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.
(d) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.

3. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?
(a) He is too young when he enlists to realize how boring the military really is.
(b) He wants so badly to be a man in the middle of danger, that he did not realize he iss toying with death.
(c) That serving your country is a greater responsibility than anyone understands.
(d) That war is the only answer to the problems of the world.

4. Who makes up Caputo's first command?
(a) A group of forty Marines in the Third Marines Division
(b) Older, war experienced non-coms
(c) Men he went to basic training with
(d) New recruits from Alabama

5. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?
(a) They go on PT boats up the China Sea.
(b) They ship out on giant C-130 planes.
(c) They go in a PanAm chartered plane.
(d) They go on an aircraft carrier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do they experience on their first night?

3. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?

4. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

5. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?

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