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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The vietnamese villages
(b) The orange smoke of artillery
(c) The muddy colored river
(d) The Cordellia

2. What does GSW stand for?
(a) Gone south for the winter
(b) Gold standard weapons
(c) Gunshot wound
(d) Good strong workers

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

4. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?
(a) Operation Harvest Moon
(b) Operation Victor charlie
(c) Operation Blue Angel
(d) Operation Hardest Mein

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?

2. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?

3. Who never looks up as they cross the muddy paddies?

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

5. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?

(see the answer key)

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