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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes
(b) Sitting on the beach surf fishing
(c) Asleep in their quarters
(d) On leave in Tokyo

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

4. What does Caputo almost trip over going through the high grass?
(a) A VC corpse
(b) A dead water buffalo
(c) The radio operator
(d) A trip wire connected to a mine

5. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) Right behind the colonel's office tent.
(b) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.
(c) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(d) On the back side near the planes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?

2. What is to be the measure of victory in the battle?

3. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?

4. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?

5. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?

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