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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 Lemmon tell Caputo that Sullivan is doing when he gets shot?
(a) Filling canteens at the river
(b) Patrolling the area
(c) Operating the radio
(d) Cleaning his rifle

2. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?
(a) A woman carrying a baby
(b) A tunnel too small for a Marine to enter
(c) A small base camp
(d) A cache of modern weapons

3. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.
(b) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(c) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(d) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.

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

5. What is the concern when they follow another VC blood trail?
(a) That his wounds are not serious and he would get away.
(b) That it will actually be one of their own men.
(c) That they would not find him alive to take as a prisoner.
(d) That he could be hidden waiting to take some of them with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?

2. What is the effect of burning magnesium?

3. What does Caputo say about the VC guerrillas being everywhere?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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