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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?
(a) As boy scouts on a hike
(b) As knights in shining armor
(c) As frightened school kids
(d) As unprepared for combat

2. How does Caputo describe his platoon?
(a) As a highly polished fighting machine that needed no training.
(b) They are a group of strangers and misfits.
(c) As men who enlist, train and travel together from the beginning.
(d) They are all uneducated and street fighters.

3. What is the result for half of the men after they return from Cinderella Liberty?
(a) Dysentary for three days
(b) Monster hangovers and Venereal Disease
(c) Denial of any further liberty
(d) Bad cases of alcohol poisoning from cheap whiskey

4. What are the new Marines of 1st Battalion like when they first arrive?
(a) They are scared and unwilling.
(b) They are seasoned old timers.
(c) They are opposed to war.
(d) They are young and gung-ho about winning the war.

5. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?
(a) A line of foot soldiers carrying bazookas
(b) A convoy of Marines pulling howitzers
(c) A convoy of generals
(d) A battalion of riot police

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?

2. What is the landmark near C Company's assignment southwest of Danang?

3. What do they experience on their first night?

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

5. How do they spend their first day at Danang?

(see the answer key)

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