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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(b) There is no time to count them in the field.
(c) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.
(d) To make sure they are actually dead.

2. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?
(a) Holding up their rifles and yelling
(b) Staying down under cover
(c) Firing at will
(d) Singing the Marine Hymn

3. What happens with the ARVN scouts in the first offensive action?
(a) They take a stand between the Marines and the enemy.
(b) They detach themselves and flee in panic.
(c) They are all captured and shot.
(d) They are massacred by the Viet Cong.

4. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Suicides and in-fighting
(b) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(c) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp
(d) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night

5. Why are the Medivac helicopters unable to land to pick up casualties?
(a) It was too windy for helicopters to fly
(b) The Howies had destroyed the terraine
(c) The VC had set the LZ on fire
(d) The LZ is under enemy machine gun fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. One night under attack, how does Sergeant Mora show up in a foxhole?

2. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?

3. Why throw a grenade instead of firing a rifle in the dark?

4. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?

5. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?

(see the answer key)

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