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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?
(a) No, he ignores it and goes on drinking.
(b) Yes, he runs to the base to start packing.
(c) Yes, but he is too stunned to know what to do.
(d) No, he calls the OD to make sure.

3. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?
(a) He does not want combat going up a hill.
(b) He suspects an ambush.
(c) He has spotted Viet cong movement on the hill.
(d) He intercepts a viet Cong communication.

4. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) The calm before the storm
(b) A little bit of hell
(c) The last torture
(d) A subtle kind of mind control

5. 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 she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(d) How frightened she looks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men are on a helicopter team?

2. What is the first offensive mission?

3. What are Vietnamese children doing as the Marine trucks pass through the village called Dogpatch?

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 throw a grenade instead of firing a rifle in the dark?

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