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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The bars
(b) The weather
(c) The girls
(d) The new arrivals

2. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.
(b) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.
(c) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.
(d) He walks up on an Asian elephant.

3. What do they experience on their first night?
(a) Night brings on a monsoon rain.
(b) At night they can see the flashes of bombs detonated.
(c) Night brings sniper fire in the distance and swarms of biting insects.
(d) The night becomes unbearably cold.

4. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(b) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.
(c) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?
(d) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.

5. How does Caputo classify Gen. Westmoreland?
(a) As a figure head
(b) As a public relations man
(c) As a fighting man
(d) As a businessman

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?

2. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?

3. What does Lemmon say they are trying to do while the Howies are strafing the area?

4. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

5. What is the landmark near C Company's assignment southwest of Danang?

(see the answer key)

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