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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(b) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat
(c) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(d) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat

2. What is the stated purpose of leaving VC bodies behind the Colonel's tent?
(a) To remind everyone why they are here.
(b) To flush out a VC infiltrator by scaring him.
(c) To show the clerks what war looks like.
(d) To give the Colonel a photo opportunity.

3. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?
(a) Sunset
(b) Mid-morning
(c) Midnight
(d) Early morning

4. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?
(a) Official ones by the Vietnamese government and forged ones by the VC.
(b) The head man of each Vietnamese village
(c) The US Embassy in Saigon
(d) The provencial governments in the country

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?

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

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

4. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?

5. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?

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