View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) Sitting on the beach surf fishing
(b) Asleep in their quarters
(c) On leave in Tokyo
(d) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes

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

3. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?
(a) He thought the Marines had the best dress uniforms.
(b) It was the only branch of the service accepting volunteers at the time.
(c) He did not want to be on a ship or fly an airplane.
(d) It promises to fulfill all his expectations more than any other branch of the service.

4. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?
(a) That nine-tenths of the time is waiting for the other one-tenth to happen.
(b) That there is never enough time to relax.
(c) That the Viet Cong ha plants in his platoon.
(d) That there would be days when there is no fighting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stated interest of the U. S. government for war in Vietnam?

2. What is the refrain the sergeant teaches the men during war training?

3. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?

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

5. How does Caputo see future life in the military?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 370 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample