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

2. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?
(a) He shouts at them for having dirty uniforms.
(b) He punches out a PFC for talking back to him.
(c) He pulls a rifle inspection on the line and reams out the whole platoon.
(d) He orders the men to drop and do pushups for him.

3. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(b) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(c) Set up an outpost.
(d) Look for snipers and take them out.

4. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?
(a) Twelve grieving families in America
(b) A dozen letters he has to write
(c) A dozen more prayers
(d) Twleve lost souls

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

3. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?

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

5. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?

(see the answer key)

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