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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?
(a) He has dreams of Sullivan and the dead VC.
(b) The big guns fire all night and he cannot sleep.
(c) The base HQ comes under fire.
(d) The mosquitoes swarm outside his tent.

3. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?
(a) Muddy rice paddies
(b) Constant sniper fire
(c) Farmers armed with pitchforks
(d) The land, the sun, and the jungle

4. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.
(b) To make sure they are actually dead.
(c) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(d) There is no time to count them in the field.

5. Who never looks up as they cross the muddy paddies?
(a) An old farmer
(b) Some boys catching frogs
(c) Three Vietnamese girls planting rice
(d) A water buffalo

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?

2. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?

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

4. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

5. How many men are on a helicopter team?

(see the answer key)

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