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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The telephone operators
(b) The prostitutes
(c) The messhall cooks
(d) The chaplains
2. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?
(a) Men with whom he played poker and drank beer
(b) Men who either died or were severely wounded in combat
(c) Men who always followed his orders to the letter
(d) Men who caused him the most grief
3. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?
(a) To the officers mess to get something to eat.
(b) Back to Danang for a 2-day liberty.
(c) To battalion HQ for a briefing.
(d) Back up the hill to retrieve his belongings.
4. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(b) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat
(c) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(d) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat
5. What change does Caputo notice in his men back at their position on the hill?
(a) They have grown apart and do not look at each other.
(b) They have become even closer.
(c) They have all truned gray haired.
(d) They are withdrawn and wild-eyed.
6. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp
(b) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night
(c) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(d) Suicides and in-fighting
7. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?
(a) That is because of political infighting.
(b) That the war in Vietnam is over before they can get there.
(c) That it is a preparedness test for the real thing.
(d) That some general has a loose screw.
8. How do the Marines return to base camp?
(a) A truck convoy picks them up.
(b) Wagons pulled by water buffalo take them back.
(c) They wait for morning and go by helicopter.
(d) They have to march all the way back.
9. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.
(b) He walks up on an Asian elephant.
(c) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.
(d) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.
10. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?
(a) Survival skills, Marine history, rules and regulations, weaponry, and how to kill.
(b) Physical exercize, recommended reading, and filing of paperwork.
(c) Use of new technology, making homemade weapons, and disarming women combatants.
(d) Military protocol, military dress, military jargon, and Marine Corps traditions.
11. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(b) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(c) The food improves with better suply lines.
(d) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.
12. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?
(a) The Marines are sure they will not become casualties.
(b) The Marines enter a war they think they cannot lose.
(c) The Marines think it will all be over in a week.
(d) The Marines believe they can win the war single handedly.
13. When the wounded VC's trail leads around a bend in the river, what choices does Caputo have?
(a) Call for air cover or send a RP scout in to take a look.
(b) Go after him and risk an ambush or turn around and go back.
(c) Assume the VC is dead or wait and watch for some movement.
(d) Go around the bend himself or send a volunteer.
14. What reality soon sets in for Caputo?
(a) He has not been properly prepared by the Marines.
(b) He has made a big mistake in joining the Marines.
(c) Battles are fought in the jungle with Viet Cong who refuse to play by the rules learned in military training.
(d) He will never get to see military action.
15. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?
(a) A visit to the field hospital
(b) Watching one of his men shot and killed by a sniper
(c) The crash of a Marine helicopter
(d) An outbreak of malaria
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
2. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?
3. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?
4. What does Caputo say about the significance of a single death in war?
5. What is the result for half of the men after they return from Cinderella Liberty?
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