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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?
(a) Watch out for sink holes.
(b) Watch out for quicksand.
(c) Watch out for those booby traps.
(d) Watch out for crocodiles.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?

2. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?

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

4. What happens about two hundred yards away from the village?

5. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?

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