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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?
(a) Probable brain damage
(b) Paralysis
(c) Amnesia
(d) Damaged immune system

2. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The messhall cooks
(b) The telephone operators
(c) The prostitutes
(d) The chaplains

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

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

5. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?
(a) Coke is a weapon often laced with poison or ground glass.
(b) They do not want to deprive the children.
(c) In that weather the Cokes are all spoiled.
(d) They have no time to drink a Coke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?

2. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?

3. What does Caputo call the training for war?

4. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?

5. What becomes of major importance to Caputo in those early days?

(see the answer key)

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