1. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?
(a) They go on an aircraft carrier.
(b) They go on PT boats up the China Sea.
(c) They ship out on giant C-130 planes.
(d) They go in a PanAm chartered plane.

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

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

4. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(b) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.
(c) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.
(d) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.

5. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) There are just too many to find all of them.
(b) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(c) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.
(d) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.