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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?
(a) The provencial governments in the country
(b) The head man of each Vietnamese village
(c) The US Embassy in Saigon
(d) Official ones by the Vietnamese government and forged ones by the VC.

2. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?
(a) The element of surprise is on their side.
(b) They hav better munitions.
(c) They outnumber them.
(d) The sun is in the VC's eyes.

3. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?
(a) They had gone on a night training hike.
(b) They hear the news and do not want to be found.
(c) Many of them had gone AWOL.
(d) It is Sunday and they are all over the island.

4. What do they hear about right away?
(a) They hear of a possible surrender of the Viet Cong.
(b) They hear that Saigon has fallen.
(c) They hear that they will go to the front lines.
(d) They hear of death and paralysis for some soldiers.

5. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?
(a) He never could stand the sight of blood.
(b) That is the way he is; he really loves this company.
(c) He thinks Marines have to be too tough.
(d) He has no patience for stupidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?

2. What does Lemmon say they are trying to do while the Howies are strafing the area?

3. What are Vietnamese children doing as the Marine trucks pass through the village called Dogpatch?

4. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?

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

(see the answer key)

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