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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A prefab building with airconditioning
(b) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof
(c) A revamped box car
(d) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture

2. What do they hear about right away?
(a) They hear that Saigon has fallen.
(b) They hear of a possible surrender of the Viet Cong.
(c) They hear of death and paralysis for some soldiers.
(d) They hear that they will go to the front lines.

3. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?
(a) Like a run down a ski slope
(b) Like standing in a high wind
(c) Like a falling brick
(d) Like a roller coaster or a canoe rushing down the rapids

4. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?
(a) The Chaplain begins holding midnight masses.
(b) VC begins a series of night sniper attacks on the base.
(c) Marines are shown movies in the mess tent.
(d) The monsoon rains stop at night.

5. How does Caputo describe his feeling after learning about the death and casualties?
(a) It is the remorse of not having been with his men.
(b) It is the detachment of unreality.
(c) It is the sadness of seeing his friends changed.
(d) It is the first time he feelst the slimy, hollow-cold fear of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of burning magnesium?

2. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?

3. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?

4. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?

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

(see the answer key)

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