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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The muddy colored river
(b) The Cordellia
(c) The vietnamese villages
(d) The orange smoke of artillery

2. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?
(a) Three or four hours
(b) Two hours in the mornings
(c) At least ten hours a day
(d) Six to eight hours per day

3. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?
(a) To the officers mess to get something to eat.
(b) Back up the hill to retrieve his belongings.
(c) To battalion HQ for a briefing.
(d) Back to Danang for a 2-day liberty.

4. What does Caputo say about the VC guerrillas being everywhere?
(a) The VC know all the secrets of the jungles and tall grasses.
(b) They have to suppose that any Vietnamese is a VC.
(c) The Americans are always outnumbered.
(d) It is another way of saying nowhere.

5. What does Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?
(a) Disorientation
(b) Problems remembering specific things
(c) Drowsiness
(d) Hatred for everything and everyone around you

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens about two hundred yards away from the village?

2. Why are the Medivac helicopters unable to land to pick up casualties?

3. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?

4. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?

5. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?

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