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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(b) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.

2. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Reading field manuals
(b) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(c) Looking for a place to put their tents
(d) Getting a tour of the area

3. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?
(a) The Marines think it will all be over in a week.
(b) The Marines enter a war they think they cannot lose.
(c) The Marines are sure they will not become casualties.
(d) The Marines believe they can win the war single handedly.

4. What is the refrain the sergeant teaches the men during war training?
(a) This is my rifle and this is my gun!
(b) Remember the Alamo!
(c) She won't do it but her sister will!
(d) Ambush is murder and murder is fun!

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?

2. A book by what author is Caputo trying to read while waiting at the outpost on top of a hill?

3. Who makes up Caputo's first command?

4. 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.

5. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?

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