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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?
(a) They are not real. It is all a big publicity stunt.
(b) Who needs medals; give him a discharge.
(c) They will make nice wall decorations at home.
(d) The gold one they pin on you and the wooden one they put over you.

2. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(b) Right behind the colonel's office tent.
(c) On the back side near the planes.
(d) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.

3. How does Caputo describe his platoon?
(a) They are a group of strangers and misfits.
(b) They are all uneducated and street fighters.
(c) As men who enlist, train and travel together from the beginning.
(d) As a highly polished fighting machine that needed no training.

4. What game are Campbell and Greene playing in the NCO's tent when Caputo enters?
(a) Gin Rummy
(b) Poker
(c) Cribbage
(d) Canasta

5. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?
(a) A line of foot soldiers carrying bazookas
(b) A battalion of riot police
(c) A convoy of generals
(d) A convoy of Marines pulling howitzers

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Caputo and his platoon have in common?

2. What are WIAs and KIAs?

3. What is the stated purpose of leaving VC bodies behind the Colonel's tent?

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

5. What do they experience on their first night?

(see the answer key)

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