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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?

2. What is the landmark near C Company's assignment southwest of Danang?

3. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?

4. What does Caputo almost trip over going through the high grass?

5. How do they spend their first day at Danang?

Short Essay Questions

1. After a group of VC disappears once again, what does Caputo want to believe?

2. What is the first month like after the battalion reaches Vietnam?

3. What do they find when they rush a base camp near the LZ?

4. What really causes the aloofness to Caputo at the base camp?

5. What does Caputo recall when the helicopter he is in draws ground fire?

6. What is Caputo's troublesome encounter with Sergeant Fred Wagoner?

7. How does the platoon receive Caputo's first lecture?

8. How does Caputo describe himself as he watches the action of the offensive from the hill?

9. Why does the C-130 make a sudden steep assault-dive on the way to the war zone?

10. What does the hospital corpsman tell Parker about his friend, Esposito?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do a creative writing piece in which you are a private or corporal in the military, sitting in a cane field at night, listening to the moans of fellow military men because the Medivac helicopters cannot get to you and the company medic has no morphine for the pain. Be sure to express your deepest feelings and frustrations.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on the morality of war. Express your opinion as to whether war has ever in the history of the world accomplished good. Add to your paper ideas about how wars may be avoided in the future.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper about how something that is at first repulsive and horrible can become so common place that it is scarcely given any thought later on. Use Caputo's experience as the Officer In Charge of the Dead. Relate that to civilian activities such as undertakers, doctors and nurses, and other such professions.

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