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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.
(b) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.
(c) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.
(d) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.

2. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?
(b) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(c) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.
(d) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.

3. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?
(a) It seems to need a new filing system.
(b) It seems to be a simple task.
(c) It seems to be a truckload.
(d) It seems to be written in a foreign language.

4. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
(a) They are tired because their boots and uniforms are soaked and heavy.
(b) They are tired from playing cards all night long.
(c) They are tired from over two hundred patrols in a month and the nights on the line.
(d) They are tired from carrying wounded Marines until the medevac can come.

5. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?
(a) Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer
(b) Regimental Legal Officer
(c) Regimental Secret and Confidential documents Officer
(d) Regimental Mess Officer

6. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting
(b) Types of weapons used at short range
(c) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action
(d) Korean made cars used in Vietnam

7. Why are Caputo and Crowe brought up on charges to face court martial?
(a) The boy, Le Dung, is killed and the village files a protest.
(b) Crowe is blamed for killing the old woman under Caputo's orders.
(c) They are charged with using white-phosphorus at close range.
(d) Some Vietnamese are shot standing still and not running.

8. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?
(a) Juggle them like a circus act.
(b) Throw them at a fleeing VC.
(c) Place them carefully to blow up a booby trap.
(d) Use them for apaerweights to hold down a map.

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

10. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.
(b) On the back side near the planes.
(c) Right behind the colonel's office tent.
(d) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.

11. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(b) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.
(c) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(d) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.

12. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?
(a) Who needs medals; give him a discharge.
(b) The gold one they pin on you and the wooden one they put over you.
(c) They are not real. It is all a big publicity stunt.
(d) They will make nice wall decorations at home.

13. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
(a) Brush the dirt off
(b) Hose them down
(c) Strip off their uniforms
(d) Throw loose dust on them

14. Who was the first KIA in 1st Battalion?
(a) Peterson, who had been transferred.
(b) Sullivan
(c) Corpsman Levy, a man Caputo knew.
(d) The Battilion commander

15. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(b) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(c) The higher commanders do not believe the report.
(d) No one has the exact coordinates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?

2. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?

3. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?

4. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?

5. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?

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