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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Caputo describe the feelings of the men after the destruction of the village Giao-Tri?
(a) There is great shock at how they went mad in the destruction.
(b) The men are learning to hate those who give succor to the enemy.
(c) The men wonder if that could ever happen in America.
(d) They are believing that there are no civilians in war.

2. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?
(a) Nothing ever happens according to plan.
(b) Their Quantico training has really paid off.
(c) Why there are always contingencies.
(d) How to avoid surprise.

3. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.
(a) It is poorly organized but almost invisible.
(b) It is situated in places unseen in the daylight.
(c) Instead of an insurgency, it is an attack force.
(d) Instead of a phantom sniper, it is a whole division of phantoms.

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

5. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?
(a) Many of them had gone AWOL.
(b) It is Sunday and they are all over the island.
(c) They hear the news and do not want to be found.
(d) They had gone on a night training hike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two problems Caputo says are the worst while they guard the landing field?

2. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

3. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

4. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?

5. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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