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

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

3. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?
(a) Trip wires and mines
(b) Vines rigged to pull a man into the air
(c) Poison stakes placed so that they are unseen until they scratch the skin
(d) Trenches, spider holes for snipers, pangee traps, and rows of sharp, angled stakes

4. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The orange smoke of artillery
(b) The Cordellia
(c) The muddy colored river
(d) The vietnamese villages

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are the Medivac helicopters unable to land to pick up casualties?

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

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

5. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

(see the answer key)

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