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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?
(a) There is nothing better to do.
(b) They want to be sure they know what to do.
(c) There are several false alarms of going to war, but none pan out .
(d) It's a kind of war game they play.

3. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?
(a) D-Day in Europe
(b) His days at Quantico
(c) The landing at Guadalcanal
(d) The taking of Phan Moon Jan

4. 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.

5. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(b) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.
(c) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(d) How frightened she looks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?

2. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?

3. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?

4. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?

5. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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