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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Caputo describe the feelings of the men after the destruction of the village Giao-Tri?
(a) There is great shock at how they went mad in the destruction.
(b) The men are learning to hate those who give succor to the enemy.
(c) The men wonder if that could ever happen in America.
(d) They are believing that there are no civilians in war.

2. What becomes of Vietnamese wounded in battle or victims of landmines?
(a) They are left to beg on the streets.
(b) They take desk jobs in their headquarters.
(c) They are put up in retirement homes.
(d) They are usually shot.

3. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) Enemy fighters fly overhead.
(b) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(c) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(d) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.

4. What happens to the Battalion Headquarters during Operation Long Lance?
(a) They have to move farther back.
(b) Eight officers and a number of enlisted men are killed.
(c) The officers all leave on a helicopter.
(d) Battalion HQ is attacked by a frightened water buffalo.

5. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?
(a) He won't have to fill out a lot of paperwork.
(b) He doesn't want to know a name he can not pronounce.
(c) He doesn't want to have to explain to the boy's family.
(d) He does not want to think of him as a person but as a dead enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?

2. What is the result for half of the men after they return from Cinderella Liberty?

3. How do the Marines return to base camp?

4. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?

5. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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