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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting
(b) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action
(c) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(d) Types of weapons used at short range

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does GSW stand for?

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

4. How many men are on a helicopter team?

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

(see the answer key)

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