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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(b) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.

3. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(b) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(c) Set up an outpost.
(d) Look for snipers and take them out.

4. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?
(a) Vines rigged to pull a man into the air
(b) Trip wires and mines
(c) Poison stakes placed so that they are unseen until they scratch the skin
(d) Trenches, spider holes for snipers, pangee traps, and rows of sharp, angled stakes

5. What happens about two hundred yards away from the village?
(a) The invisible enemy opens automatic sniper fire on them.
(b) They get lost and go around in a circle.
(c) The Hill 267 howitzers shell near the place where they are.
(d) An attack helicopter goes ahead of them to strafe the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?

2. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?

3. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?

4. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?

5. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?

(see the answer key)

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