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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who never looks up as they cross the muddy paddies?
(a) Some boys catching frogs
(b) Three Vietnamese girls planting rice
(c) A water buffalo
(d) An old farmer
2. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?
(a) The cartoon mascot of the division HQ.
(b) The chief cook at the officers' mess.
(c) The bald headed Lt. Colonel Executive Officer for Colonel Wheeler.
(d) A pet monkey captured in the jungle.
3. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?
(a) Military speak for an explosion caused by a US military error.
(b) Mine fields that harm only the enemy.
(c) Silent explosions.
(d) Explosives that fail to detonate.
4. What happens to a large number of the platoon down in a paddy?
(a) They step into a quicksand bog.
(b) A homemade Claymore is tripped and there are nine casualties.
(c) They get bogged down in the mud and have to fire from there.
(d) They take a wrong turn and get lost in some elephant grass.
5. What warning does Caputo receive after the destruction at Ha Na?
(a) He will be relieved of command if anything like this happens again.
(b) He will have to stay on the front line if he cannot control his platoon.
(c) He may be facing a serious reprimand if it happens again.
(d) He is risking his men when he lets them turn savage like that.
6. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?
(a) They just want to double check.
(b) The first grenades are duds.
(c) The trap is uncommonly huge.
(d) The first two are in the wrong place.
7. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) To make sure they are actually dead.
(b) There is no time to count them in the field.
(c) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(d) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.
8. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?
(a) About half
(b) Only a little
(c) Only the perimeters
(d) Most of it
9. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?
(a) He says, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."
(b) He says that shadows do not carry rifles that sound like an AK-47.
(c) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."
(d) He says, "you're probably right but what can we do about it?"
10. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?
(a) Operation Harvest Moon
(b) Operation Hardest Mein
(c) Operation Blue Angel
(d) Operation Victor charlie
11. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?
(a) The element of surprise is on their side.
(b) They hav better munitions.
(c) The sun is in the VC's eyes.
(d) They outnumber them.
12. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?
(a) The perfect way his platoon has performed.
(b) The prospect of a medal
(c) The congratulations from his men
(d) The close combat with the remaining VC
13. What is a consistent reminder of the casualties of war.
(a) The faces one misses in the mess hall
(b) The Medivac helicopters flying back and forth in the dripping sky
(c) The number of body bags brought in each week
(d) Announcements made over the PA system daily
14. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?
(a) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a week's R and R.
(b) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.
(c) Any Marine who kills a certified VC will get beer and time to drink it.
(d) Any Marine who kills a VC will be flown back to base camp.
15. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?
(a) He gets hit in the arm but keeps going.
(b) He comes under heavy fire and dust is kicked up in his face.
(c) He falls into a trap and has to wait for rescue.
(d) He crawls up on a VC corpse.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Caputo angry that Crowe and his men do not bring in the suspected VC?
2. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
3. Who was the first KIA in 1st Battalion?
4. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?
5. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?
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