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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where is Caputo's first command?
(a) The Philippines
(b) Danang, Vietnam
(c) Seoul, Korea
(d) Okinawa, Japan
2. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?
(a) Muddy rice paddies
(b) The land, the sun, and the jungle
(c) Farmers armed with pitchforks
(d) Constant sniper fire
3. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The telephone operators
(b) The prostitutes
(c) The chaplains
(d) The messhall cooks
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. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) Sitting on the beach surf fishing
(b) On leave in Tokyo
(c) Asleep in their quarters
(d) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes
Short Answer Questions
1. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
2. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?
3. What does he imagine being in the military will be like?
4. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?
5. What do they experience on their first night?
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