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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?
(a) The first two are in the wrong place.
(b) They just want to double check.
(c) The trap is uncommonly huge.
(d) The first grenades are duds.

2. What does Caputo almost trip over going through the high grass?
(a) The radio operator
(b) A VC corpse
(c) A trip wire connected to a mine
(d) A dead water buffalo

3. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?
(a) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.
(b) Everything is in order and quiet.
(c) The lights are put out so that the VC cannot see it as a target.
(d) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.

4. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.
(b) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.
(c) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.
(d) They do hours of calisthenics.

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. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

2. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?

3. Why does Caputo lose radio contact with one of his operators?

4. What casualties are suffered during the next two days?

5. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?

(see the answer key)

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