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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 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) The night becomes unbearably cold.
(d) Night brings on a monsoon rain.

2. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?
(a) That there would be days when there is no fighting.
(b) That the Viet Cong ha plants in his platoon.
(c) That there is never enough time to relax.
(d) That nine-tenths of the time is waiting for the other one-tenth to happen.

3. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?
(a) That some general has a loose screw.
(b) That it is a preparedness test for the real thing.
(c) That is because of political infighting.
(d) That the war in Vietnam is over before they can get there.

4. What is the first offensive mission?
(a) Search and destroy
(b) Hit and run
(c) Hide and ambush
(d) Advance and wait

5. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.
(b) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(c) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(d) Enemy fighters fly overhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo call the training for war?

2. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?

3. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?

4. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?

5. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?

(see the answer key)

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